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.

When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.