Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.

When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

I fully support global commerce.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.

It’s not about who they are, but about God’s principle

To become free from sinful life, there is only simple method: if you surrender to Kṛṣṇa. That is the beginning of bhakti.

If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now.

Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts.

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.

It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.

You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.