You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation.

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous.

Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement

A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.

How did I picture the life after the grave?I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Dikaios smacked Elam with his tail. "His curiosity wouldn't kill a sick kitten, much less a cat.

I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it.

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.