We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

Theres a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isnt always pretty.

We believe very passionately that an international approach is necessary to achieve some of these goals.

It may not necessarily be the way I would like to see it happen, but the reality is we could still bring millions of people out of the darkness into the light.

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.

This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.

I dont believe you need high capacity magazines to go hunt. If you have to use 100 rounds to shoot a deer, youre in trouble.

There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions.

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs.

When you're a kid, you have these big dreams and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference

This was like walking the line between dream and sleep. The night-sharp balance of being asleep enough to dream and awake enough to remember what he wanted.

A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is "What would love do now?"

All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

I never trust a man that doesn't drink.

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.