And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success.

Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

You have to be someone.

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

There is no ONE right way, no ONE sure-fire path to success, and it is usually the path itself that should be most cherished.

From the point of view of emptiness, there is neither being nor non-being, but we're not on the point of view of emptiness, we're on the point of view of our relative being.

Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough.