There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

You may hate me from your heart but I will continue to love you to touch your heart.

I don't mind people talking about me behind my back. It means they know me, and I'm out in front.

What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you?And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're ok?

We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics.

As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.