We need to develop clean, affordable, and reliable energy sources, and frankly, we need to license that technology to the rest of the world.

Veterans Day is an acknowledgment that those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country - and their families - deserve our admiration and respect today and every day.

We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.

My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.

I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

The Healthy Homes Tax Credit Act will help ensure that all families, regardless of their income, can protect their children from the lifelong health impacts of lead poisoning.

We have to look at loan forgiveness to incentivise young people to pursue degrees in areas where we know we need help.

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine

If you let go completely you will have complete peace.

Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

This is the age of the new tolerance and it is producing a bumper crop of anti-Christian and anti-American sentiment.

This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine.

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?