I was asked by the city to come to a closed door personnel session.

In a residential area you just don’t see turbines – there must be a reason why there are only eleven in Ontario. I am concerned about the value of my property and the noise. On...

In years past he would be starting, … Hands down he’d be starting right now. But that’s the kind of quality depth we have.

go there all the time.

One of the most vulnerable situations facing America is our ports of entry. Whoever’s responsible for those ports of entry should be American.

They had questions and I answered them. That’s all. That’s all I got.

The main problem is I don’t think it does anything to produce a gallon of gas,

He [Hastert) worked me over a little.

It’s just my laptop and me.

He just drove onto a wide section of the sidewalk and took out all those people, … He is a bad guy, and it looks like it may have been intentional. … All I know...

Now it is the biggest windmill in the world that doesn’t work. It was too big and too expensive for its time.

There are no so-called earmarks, where members come in and ask you for something, … That was our position, and the members understood that.

There’s no question he’s one of the better players in the Big 12. He has unbelievable quickness off the ball. He would have had a ton of sacks if we could have contained the quarterback.

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I personally feel that I got elected to do a job. I am not one to succumb to political pressure or what’s politically correct. I have to go out and do what I think is...

Every single person deserves to have a school named after them,

I like to bring in people who might give you a different perspective than from reading the book.

That’s a huge issue. Like in our league, other teams can talk about winning championships. With our number situation, we’ve got to look to try to win four games.

[In Washington, Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Indian Shores, scheduled a hearing Wednesday to discuss funding for Hurricane Katrina. He also planned to explore the president’s idea.] I can understand why the president wants to do...

For a while, all the mines were shutting down and now it seems like there is a change in it. And they’re reopening it and we need something here.

They are not riders. They are limitations on the use of funds,

We made the request to the president to get engaged, and it was his decision not to,

It will be more important in eight or nine years when the NFL is behind him. I hope he doesn’t lose sight of that.

This is a global war on terror, and if we don’t win the battle in Iraq, where else might we win it or, where else might we have to fight it?

It is within the budget, … Anyone who wants to find something to complain about can find it, because it’s a big bill. But there is very much in the bill to be proud of....

I’m just hoping to see more effort when we watch film. We played a real good team tonight. They showed why they’re ranked in the state.

Violent crime is a major concern for us. … This is a high profile case, but it’s not our only case,

$25 billion will not be enough,

I was able to convince him that this was in his best interests. We’re very excited about it.

What I think you probably couldn’t put on TV, but it starts with a ‘B’ and starts with an ‘S’.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development received a $4 billion increase over last year (1999) in the House bill. This is a larger increase than we gave most agencies and departments in the federal...

They execute the Wing-T like we want to. They have a lot of misdirection. … They’ve just got so many people (in the backfield) you can’t begin to cover them all.

We’re not out to tear down trees. We’ll try to do the best we can to situate the plans to preserve them.

We need to start the process quickly on the dollar numbers, … The number that I am reading in the newspapers, in my opinion will be totally inadequate to carry even the Balkans issue to...

If we’d had everyone, I think we could have won it.

This is not the easiest bill to deal with and get votes for,

We saw enough to make us think we’ve got some very fine tackles.

Our nation’s needy families would be better served if Mr. Cuomo spent less time holding press conferences and more time working with Congress to ensure his programs have the maximum impact for those who depend...

It was his decision not to do so,

I find it interesting that some people would position the sales tax initiative with this. It’s simply not true.

It was certainly an aim of mine to gain a bit of size and conditioning but I’ll see how I go (carrying the extra weight) in a game situation this weekend.

I’m very keen to have a run. There are a lot of young guys in the squad so there’s a good opportunity for those guys to show their wares and a good opportunity for blokes...

There’s not a strong history of good government in New Orleans, or strong government, or effective government.

They eat, they buy gas, so it is a real plus for the Valley to have here .

We’re wearing out our troops, we’re wearing out the equipment,

Let there be no doubt, our choice — the choice of President Bush, the choice of the United States Congress, and the choice of the great people of a great nation — is to fight...

It has been a long difficult process, but in the end we believe we’ve struck a responsible balance between increasing funding for such priorities as education and medical research, without overburdening the American taxpayer,

There’s got to be some compromises, … The president has the veto pen.

We’ve come to a situation where those crimes are ignored,

Competition just keeps us on our toes. But we’d rather not be kept on our toes with our own products.