The world changed on September 11, 2001.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Love has no fear, willing to take on anyone. But how much we fear love!

I transform fiction into memory.

You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.

They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.

When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

Our society has got to evolve and create better ways of living.

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

Everything that scares you is an opportunity to know your best self better.

The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success