The Affordable CARE ACT's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining HEALTH insurance MAY reasonably be characterized as a tax.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting NEW kids, GOING to new SCHOOLS, MOVING to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the AMERICAN School in Germany.

I look to SEE what things I enjoy doing and just TRY to figure out how to SPEND my TIME doing things that I enjoy.

I really don't LIKE to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at HOME. My family and school life are IMPORTANT to me. I try to do one MOVIE a year.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a TECHNICAL sense transmitting more INFORMATION to a MACHINE than any other human ACTIVITY involving machinery allows.

Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 YEARS ago, doesn't MEAN that PEOPLE didn't have sex, pick their NOSE, or swear.

I respect a SYSTEM that says we're going to put every BIT of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the DRUG DEALER who is bringing his poison into the COUNTRY.

In 1999, my TEAM discovered that the star Upsilon Andromedae was circled by three gas-giant planets - the FIRST distant multiplanet system EVER found. That same year, other researchers observed the first 'transit' of an exoplanet - a planet blocking out a small fraction of the starlight as it passes in FRONT of the star.

They WANT the OLYMPICS. We OUGHT to make SURE they don't GET the Olympics.

In our national mythology, we SEEM to include only one-way migrations to the GREAT capitol cities. The journey from the SMALL Wisconsin town or MINNESOTA city to Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. Certainly for some PEOPLE, that journey is a round trip.