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.

I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.

Sidney Crosby

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Frank Lloyd Wright

It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

Schillerbuch

\ Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.

Sorin Cerin

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Portia de Rossi

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

Marcy Kaptur

When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.

Isaac Asimov

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

Tracey Emin

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

John Ruskin

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

Nelson Algren

You are the gold and Love is within your heart.

Judy Azar LeBlanc

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Robert Kiyosaki