The taxpayers deserve accountability.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.

There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.

We need leadership, and we need it now.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.

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

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.

Is there decency left in American politics?

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

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

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 proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.

If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.

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.

This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

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

I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

You can delegate authority but you cannot delegate responsibility.

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

I'm constantly on the go and have found rushing round after a new born baby is the best form of exercise! I always remind myself that men appreciate a womanly shape and some curves!

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned. we're Republicans.'

That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.

Tools have their own integrity.

Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischievous. It will be helpful. It will be generous.

I sing what I sing.

Design - pure beauty - will be number one at Fisker Coachbuild. We want to bring beautiful, desirable cars to the market, limit the production of each model, and do so with the highest quality.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

I'm probably a little too uninhibited.

I own a lot of shoes; I am not sure how many.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

Im not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I never seem to know how to do it. Every book is different and takes a different structure, style, process, etc. And relearning how to write is where the insanity comes from.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.