Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.

If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return.

I wasn't there yet, I wasn't finding joy and gladness in my barrenness, but I believed I would. I believed He would make my barren soul as beautiful as His perfect garden.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.

Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

The recession is everywhere. We need to be heard. Wouldn't it be great if there could be more referendums so we could have regular voting on specific points?

A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do.

Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laughing you become, the more religious.

For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty.