We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

Peacekeeping funds are an important and necessary part of what America does for humanity and the rest of the world.

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

We're going to be examining, how can we more properly screen and vet people coming into the United States? We will also be looking at the border.

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

I believe the previous administration shrunk from some of our responsibilities as a superpower and made the world a more dangerous place.

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.

Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. "Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts, " she murmured.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

Keep out of the past. It is haunted.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.