Any employer is going to look at your social media before they hire you. Why aren't we doing that when we screen people coming into the United States?

Peacekeeping funds are an important and necessary part of what America does for humanity and the rest of the world.

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

We're going to be examining, how can we more properly screen and vet people coming into the United States? We will also be looking at the border.

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

I don't believe everything "is meant to be." I believe God wants to direct our steps, but our free will makes for a lot of detours.

One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

His blessings and His provisions for us are based entirely on HIS GOODNESS and HIS FAITHFULNESS.

I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.