We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.

Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

I would rather live short and right then long and wrong.

Fair enough…No inhaling battery acid, ” I smirk. “We can’t breathe batteryacid, can we?

A willing spirit is a divine-being.

Sometimes you need to loose in order to win.

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.

Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.