I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.

The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.

In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.

Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.

Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

America didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created America.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

We must stop being the stupid party.

Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they're trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism.

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

I thought Bones looked like a little slice of heaven, but you're the whole cake, aren't you, sugar?

Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

Bears," I muttered, adding a new fear to the pile. "That would be just her luck, wouldn't it? Stray bear in town. OF course it would head straight for Bella.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.