While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.

On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.

Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

Well, our economy is very strong and growing. We have created 5.4 million new jobs in the last 3 years. Our unemployment rate is better than the average unemployment rate of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination.

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.

However one feels about the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 percent.

After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.

I represent Orlando Florida the worlds number one vacation destination.

The blues is played everywhere. Theres no place Ive been where they dont have blues or arent interested in blues.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.

Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.

Skepticism enables us to distinguish fancy from fact, to test our speculations.

A wise girl knows her limits a smart girl knows that she has none.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Happiness is there when you express kindness compassion and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy.

I actually have the Arcade PC at home, and it has 5,500 games on it. Everything from the old school, Galaga, Tron, Missile Command, anything you can think of, they're all on there. I love the old school games.

Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then in silence I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

We don't feel pressure of, 'Let's make this really raunchy.' It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us.

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.

You do not need to go to journalism school if you want to work in the fashion industry. I think high schools condition you to think this way: If you want to be a fashion editor, go to fashion school. If you want to be a writer, you should study journalism. I think that the best school in life is experience.

The best defense is a good offence

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.