It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.

The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

As a Republican, I am proud of my party's rich legacy of conservation.

You can either go home with enough money or enough excuses, but not both!

If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you.

Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race -- to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly sympathies and affections.

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.