We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.

It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

Millions of Americans take vitamins safely every day, including me. Vitamins and mineral supplements taken in recommended doses are safe. It's the designer supplements that are worrisome.

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

We will have health care reform in America.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.

We have 11 million people in this country that need a pathway to citizenship.

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.

We are here on planet Earth to learn lessons and to grow in loving knowledge.

A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

I think drugs and alcohol aren't a wrestling problem, it's a life problem, it's a people problem.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying 'yes' to God. In him we find joy.