You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel

Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

How could you be sad, when you can sing?

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.

I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, "awe s***.. they're up".

In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.