The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern and a rising deficit changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.

And whether it is equal pay health care Social Security or family leave this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

Order is the sanity of the mind the health of the body the peace of the city the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body so is order to all things.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport the arts charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health social security defence pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports the arts the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

Since 1994 lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public though has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed millions went uninsured and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

The United States are a political state or organized society whose end is government for the security welfare and happiness of all who live under its protection.

For happiness one needs security but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without but because of the insidious forces working from within.