We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.

The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

Drug smugglers often use juveniles to carry their shipments into the U.S. because they know the juveniles will not be prosecuted if caught.

I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.

A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.

There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S.

Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack.

While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.

It's a date.""It's a cookie.""It's a cookie date.

I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time. I listen. Perhaps the waiting is a form of prayer.

But ghosts aren't white and bright. Ghosts are shadows of someone or something gone wrong.

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

Believing, desiring, deciding, and choosing correctly are the simple actions that define an increase in happiness and an increase in the inner assurance that transcends this life.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.