The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success.

But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.