As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as we continue to fight and, more importantly, win the war on terror.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

Our law enforcement must be given every tool available to protect children from predators and parents need to know who is living in their community.

We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.

So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.

Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.

I'm fighting myself every day to get better.