Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research

In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded

Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina

The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.

Everything needed for success has been placed into us from the beginning

If someone like this were to like me, to like my comedy, and to like the way I conduct myself professionally, it would mean that I suck as a person.

In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves.

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

I played 100 shows before I got paid

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.

The first thought is often the best.

A blessing in disguise, is right before our eyes. But since it is in disguise, we don't know that it's there.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.