Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

Even talking about change can be threatening to entrenched interests...Careers in the Pentagon, the board room, or the halls of Congress are not advanced by creating the disruptions that go with real change, so there are very few voices willing to speak up for the future and move beyond rhetoric to make serious choices.

I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.