We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

As much as I value an union of all the states I would not admit the southern states into the union unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

But my strength was in singing and songwriting which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting which is what was closest to my heart then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

I realized that while I would never be my mother nor have her life the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted and if the time came for me to go the Lord would let them take me.