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.

Growing up in Nashville especially in a music business family means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that you're stuck.

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and sooner or later he invariably found it.

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things and the comics that I immersed myself in as a child.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

I think up until the point when we started in the business which was in the early '70s most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

Absurdity is what I like most in life and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do and I love this profession.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

In the theatre people talk. Talk talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old familiar pillow.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school home... until I found something I loved which was music and that changed everything.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

If good history is dispassionate history it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

My generation of bossy confident baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan unknown before her 1963 book or by Gloria Steinem whose political activism as even the Lifetime profile admitted did not begin until 1969.