In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.

More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases.

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.

Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

Only a rose would make a man turn the shade of his desire.

A tightly woven argument is more impermeable to the frigid winds of criticism.

If God is a crutch, then atheism is a coma.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.

Unjust rule does not last forever.

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.