The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist

I don't know any Baptists who don't want to see folks get saved… you start winning folks to the Lord and baptizing them… They'll pretty well put up were [your methods].

Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

I look like everyone else.

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

Every year, you try to be more consistent. It's a long year and it's tough to do. But those great players do find it. That's something that I try to do.?

Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial pageant. Nothing here lasts - that is how you know it's the dream.

There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.

God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.