The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

Daniel Libeskind

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

George M. Humphrey

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

Elbert Hubbard

No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band.

Ann Wilson

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels FREE.

Thich Nhat Hanh

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

Francois Rabelais

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing

Kahlil Gibran

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

John Ruskin

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Herbert Spencer