However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.

My view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks.

Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them.

The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world.

As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.

Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

We don't have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions.

An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.