This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential.

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.

Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.

If you look good, you feel good, If you feel good, you play good, If you play good, they pay good.

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

The four main orientations of Morocco's foreign policy: the Maghreb, the Arab world, Africa and other partners

It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.

I was conscripted to military service, and my gut feeling was to refuse to serve. I did not want to kill other people. This seemed to me wrong, if not in principle, so at least in practice.