This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.

It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.

When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.

I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Courage is God's way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.

Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations.

All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.

If you believe what you say, words will become reality.

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

I have to do this all the time - choosing what to print based on how it might come back to harm people from whom I've earned trust.

Two things that I think matter are gratitude and joy.