After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

An indictment is not a conviction.

I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.

The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life.

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

We have to confront ignorance in our nation.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.

No one player is as good as the sum of a team

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.

But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on mine, as if I were the very heart of his universe, I couldn't help but melt into him.

Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.

A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.