For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

An actor's job is to do their job. It's great if it's successful and it's fantastic when it's a huge hit, but at the same time, you're there to do a job and make sure you do it well.

Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.

To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place.

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

A life that is lived without regard to God cannot be called living.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.