In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills.

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.

Stop talking about it and just WRITE!

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

Be persistent and have faith and you can achieve anything.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.

I am looking forward to seeing my buddy Colin represent in front of Pacino. That's sweet.

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--