We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions.

I do not envy those who live a comfortable life.

I understand you" is the soul behind "I Love You". If this is missing, "I Love You" is empty.

I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.

Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

In New York, you can bump into someone on the street and go to a thing, go get coffee real quick.

The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.

Thinking for yourself - that's scarier than any devil image.

You see people swimming, and you think, oh, how wonderful to swim. But most people stand on the edge swaying back and forth, afraid to jump. They don't think they can swim.