Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

You are beyond the sky

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).

I'm going to be very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that.

Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.

Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record.

I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!