For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.

Sherwood Boehlert
Politician

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

Sherwood Boehlert
Politician

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

Arna Bontemps
Poet

Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.

Arna Bontemps
Poet

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Daniel J. Boorstin
Historian

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin
Historian

I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil.

Sherwood Boehlert
Politician

Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.

Sherwood Boehlert
Politician

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

Sherwood Boehlert
Politician

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Leader