When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror

Being different is the only way to live

The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

I believe joy is a spiritual practice we have to work at.

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

I guess I'm still holding on to something that I know will probably never happen, because somewhere deep down inside me, I have this little piece of hope that someday, it will.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.