The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.

No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.

Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget.

When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents.

Before any family is placed in any type of shelter, there must be a thorough, top-to-bottom, building-wide inspection. These inspections must be ongoing and publicly accessible. There is no excuse for any person to be blindly put into an apartment without a guarantee that the space is safe.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.