Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

The lack of substantial resources and staffing along the Northern U.S. border poses a real security threat.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

One thing I really love being a man about Islam is

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.

It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.