My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

Methamphetamine is a highly dangerous drug that is wreaking havoc on families and communities throughout this country. The drug's use is spreading across the United States.

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.

As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.

Now more than ever, America needs an agenda for real change.

Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.

The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.

Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.

I do not believe we accomplish very much in life unless we are enthusiastic, unless we are in earnest, and unless we practice what we preach.

Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.

The New York Police Department says Iran has conducted surveillance inside New York City. They say Iranian operatives are using special mobile surveillance units. I believe they're called taxi cabs.

Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.