we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential.

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

Thought creates character.

Gin and whisky cost so much more. Oblivion and courage could no longer be purchased for the price of an old song.

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'

However little television you watch, watch less.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.

Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.

After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.