Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

I didn’t take very much part in activities on campus at that time.

Setting a timetable for exit in Iraq is a mistake, but so is the Administration refusing to level with the American people about the situation there.

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture...

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation’s position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.

Essential central German administrative departments have not been established, although they are expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that...

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before – but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

I support civil unions between same-sex couples and believe that each state should be free to make its own decision on this issue.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they’ve waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave,...

It’s time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure...

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush’s blatant disregard for science.

The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.

The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and ’62.

American families be warned, if the White House doesn’t send your jobs overseas, they’ll send your kids.

The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

We’ve got to protect our young men and women and we’ve got to win that, whatever the cost.

The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and...

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.

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

You have to starve the Beast. That’s one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it’s going to be spent.

We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors – it is truly an Iowa value.

Moreover when Reagan and the President were compared on the handling of a series of issues of foreign affairs and dealing with Congress.

The power to shape Oregon’s future remains where it has always been – in our collective hands.

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve – or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart – or a soul...

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker’s wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA’s true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam...

If you’re going to try to win an election, you can’t be 80 percent. You can’t say, I’m for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.

Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.

We are not going to abandon Iraq.

As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.

I hate to lose the constituency that I’ve worked with, but I’ve got 170,000 people to meet in my new district.

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries,...

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn...

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.