A strange thing is memory and hope one looks backward and the other forward one is of today the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain memory is a painter it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

Today for the first time in history a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land once a distant outpost of the pagan world has become through the preaching of the Gospel a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

Let's face it in America today we don't have a health care system we have a sick care system.

I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

Today diabetes is now epidemic according to the Centers for Disease Control the National Institutes of Health the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

The result was of course that today tragically more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance and for many not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.