When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

When farmers and ranchers are confronted by weather-related disasters that are beyond their control, we need to do something to help.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.

I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.

Hank had left me his doomed army, and he’d left Marcie his inheritance. Unfair didn’t begin to cover it.

When I am in pain, I must know that beauty always has been and always will be. This is as close to eternity as I need to be.

Far worse it is, To lose than never to have tasted bliss.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again.

The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.

We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.