Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

I'm more of the sneaker-wearing, computer geek type.

We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.

But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.

As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.

When the money dries up, the sites die off. That's the way to go after piracy.

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

I warn you, the trip will not be easy. Once you choose to walk in the light, your path will lead you places you do not want to go.

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.

The Angel's bread is made the Bread of man today.