In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.

On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

In my entire life, I never once heard either of my parents say they were stressed. That was just not a phrase I grew up being allowed to say. That, and the concept of "Me time".

The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, —the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody.

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Commit to becoming breathtakingly great in all you do. And that's what you'll become.

When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.