The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities

When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us.

What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?

I can't compete with making promises you can't keep.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.

I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.