While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

The universe evolved from something and nothing, and has most of these elemental dualpair until now.

Friends come into our lives and friends leave our lives. But friends never leave our hearts. And best friends always get to stay in the best places in our hearts.

Watch people when they win, and you will learn something. But watch them when they lose, and you will learn even more.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

With self-discipline, all things are possible