Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.

Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of greenhouse gases?

The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills.

Carbon dioxide is....being portrayed as a pollutant; in fact, it makes things grow, and it is not toxic to humans.

During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?

What's happening in Russia of course is you have a country watching out for its national interest.

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

The ice caps are melting, which we see over and over again. Yeah, they're melting on Mars, too!

Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

In my sixteen years, I have experienced heartbreak, tragedy and transcending love. In my thirteenth year, I moved to Westerly and experienced all three.

But who, in these modern times, slept well?

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying. So you'd better cry now and get used to it.

I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.