For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.

Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be more successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny. We believed in democracy and promoted it.

I love my job. I whoop people for truckloads of cash. How could I hate this life? I love it so much. I'm grateful every single day.

To project your idea, you have to use new technology. It's not like the '70s or the '80s; you have an image that you project globally.

I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.

To fly, we must have resistance.

An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash.

We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.