We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history

Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff.

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.

A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride.

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

I walked when I should have runI ran when I should have walkedAnd don't I know it, don't I know it

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

I feel I do what I love, and the fools pay me for it.

I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, Drinking fresh mango juice. Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun.

Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence