Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.

Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential.

As a Republican, I am all for competition.

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.

And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today.

On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.

I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance

Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.

It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.

In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did not know.