I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.

If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.

When we focus on love, we shall experience love.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.

That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.

Their highs are too low and their lows are too high.

When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.