Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders.

Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.

Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic.

One in 5 Americans is touched by the Red Cross every single year.

Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.

There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.

Three quarters of the East Coast's refinery capability is located in the Philadelphia region.

More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone.

Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay.

Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia.

We all have that moment when we think, 'Hand me that Oscar now - you don't even have to have the ceremony'.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

The realm of classical music is so vast not only in terms of style but of era age and the purposes for which it was composed it is an enormous art form.

I have reached a limit in my work.

I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.

I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.

Making a movie with people of all different ethnicity, all different skin color and different backgrounds, meant that the movie can literally play all around the world. It's not just a blanket whitewash film like most Hollywood films tend to be.

Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.

I am the hawk and theres blood in my feathers but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me share in the freedom I feel when I fly.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

I don't just write a script, and then someone takes it away and builds a game. I am continually getting input in order to create a big suspension field to hold the gameplay together so that the gamers aren't doing arbitrary tasks, so that they are doing things that seem meaningful.

Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.

It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed.

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesnt matter which color does the hating. Its just plain wrong.

My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left.

Dreams do come true if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.