“I love the four-day weekend without having anything that particularly has to get done. And of course, I love the fundamental idea behind it-giving thanks for all the good people and good things in your life.”

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it’s even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don’t need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

We can now say with certainty that the dream of this spaceport launching a new era in New Mexico’s aerospace industry will become reality.

So what if it’s risky? It’s the right thing to do. What we’re talking about is 160 people in deep pain. It only affects them.

Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.

Few needs are more pressing, or more deserving of our attention, than taking care of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

John McCain will pay hundreds of dollars for his own shoes. But we’re the ones who have to pay for his flip-flops.

If you want to find a way to keep illegal immigrants, you know where they are, you give them a driver’s license. It helps with – they all get insured, it helps with traffic safety.

Recognizing and preventing men’s health problems is not just a man’s issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men’s health is truly a family issue.

I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite.

Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business leaders.

Natural gas is the future. It is here.

You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.

I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what’s right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

“Novels and gardens,” she says. “I like to move from plot to plot.”

You have a 12-foot fence. You know what’ll happen? Thirteen foot ladders.

There’s only one thing i know for certain anymore.” he turned, his eyes a clear black. “that i would do anything for you, even if it means going against mu instincts or my very nature. I would lay down everything i possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn’t love, it’s the best i have.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else.

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.