Winter in #‎ Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities

Religion is the world's label for following God. But, it is a one-on-one, daily and personal relationship that God seeks from all of us.

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

I wish I could take it all back, but I can’t. And I definitely can’t un-feel a feeling.

For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

Everyone has their thing, and I was the weird, artsy kid.

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.