I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.

Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.

Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people.

The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

Americas health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens.

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.