With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

Our law enforcement must be given every tool available to protect children from predators and parents need to know who is living in their community.

As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as we continue to fight and, more importantly, win the war on terror.

We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.

So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.

Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

Don't step backward toward nothing, step forward toward something, better awkward steps forward, than coward steps backward.

Should I tell her of the moments of joy, the intense pleasure of holding the hand of the one you love and wishing that time would stand still?

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you, ” and I was now living that mantra.

His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

I'm always amazed at the way some actors' behaviour is truly disgusting. That's one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.

We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test , and teach.

We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'