We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

I'd like to build myself a rocket ship and launch myself into space. Still waiting on the technological advances required for a DIY space flight.

Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.

I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.

So, what did you get for me?" Angeline paused for a beat. "Jeans." "What?" croaked Artemis. "And a T-shirt.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth.

All my characters have playlists.