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

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.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

I liked to play dress-up.

At the end of the day, even if my part is a bit goofy, the key thing is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that's to make people laugh.

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

I come from Texas. We're a different brand of people. You're not changing who I am.

At the WTO, it's never a general surgery. It's always a very specific, clinical, precise surgery - and you can't miss the target. If you miss the target, you kill the patient. It's as simple as that.

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!

I just love seeing other females work.

I think my style is quite grungy and punky. I love the '90s and the music from that time, and I love punk music. I'm also a fan of mixing vintage with some high fashion, which links back to my musical taste because I tend to mix old music with newer songs.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

I am cool.

There is one thing on which Arik will make no concessions: terrorism.

Mother the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart.

Carpentry is the Illusion of Perfection

To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong.

I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

The atheist has no hope.

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

I enjoy seeing how my friends - Proenza Schouler, Zac Posen, Rodarte - use clothes to create their vision and art.