We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it.

Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

Living one's life as if it is a competition between oneself and others, is an inevitable path to a stressful life.

No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

The hardest thing about finding forgiveness is that you had to find it at all.

Trace Adkins is such a great guy. Really is. And he's got that incredible voice - low, deep. He throws words around like "my dental coverage."

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

I think, a secret love is something none of your friends would understand. And it's like a fairy tale, but more serious.