This will be the first U.N. ambassador since 1948 that we’ve ever sent there under a recess appointment,

We stand completely and totally behind our president. We may have our differences from time to time, but on a day like this, which rivals or not exceeds the attack on Pearl Harbor, we stand...

This ought not to be a controversial proposal,

Rumsfeld is violating the law, … It’s been sitting on the books for over a year. They were opposed to it. It was insulting to them. I’m sorry that’s how they felt.

I am confident that we are going to have a bill. I think we’re there.

It’s time to renew our commitment to the world around us.

Throwing worn-out wallpaper on a cracked foundation just doesn’t work. The Bush administration proposal amounts to nothing more than that. Don’t solve the problem, just end up with more rhetoric. We need a fundamental change...

If Tom Daschle or another Democratic leader were to have made similar statements, the reaction would have been very swift, … I don’t think several hours would have gone by without there being an almost...

As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

What you ought to do is prepare for a good storm, a hurricane, a storm where you’d like two or three days of … water and canned goods and the like, … Face The Nation.

acted as she had to.

Looking at large parts of it, you don?t know how they?re going to rebuild it.

You make the comparison, do you want two or three years out of Sandra Day O’Connor, or 25 years out of this? … Based on what we know, the choice looks pretty good – keep...

It’s vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Consumers all across the country, I don’t care where you live, are irate about this, … If it were not for Katrina and people being terribly upset about the mismanagement of that disaster, this would...

not yet arrived at a product that we can present to this body that is a bipartisan proposal.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

we are very, very worried about what happens in the rural or urban situations.

tie up three branches of government for the next four months.

Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country...

I’m so proud of our students here in Connecticut and obviously President Clinton was impressed too since he’s agreed to thank the students in person for their tremendous efforts to help the people affected by...

Rosa Parks is not just a national hero, she is the embodiment of our social and human conscience and the spark that lit the flame of liberty and equality for African Americans and minority groups...

Our nation’s children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.

This ought not to be a partisan issue. Democrats and Republicans ought to be able to find common ground on seeing to it that we have accessible, affordable and quality child for every needy child...

He would do himself, and I think the country, a favor by withdrawing.

It’s easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn’t magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

I’m hopeful this measure will help bring to justice people who perpetrated heinous crimes because of racial hatred,

We need to do something about antiquated voting machines, ballots that confuse rather than clarify, and overcrowded polling places.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

When the public’s right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

What did the vice president know, what were his intentions?

Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.

Direct mail service is not likely to happen without cooperation from the Cuban government, nor the scholarship programs for Cuban students. Humanitarian assistance by non-governmental organizations is already ongoing.

If you start doing a finding of fact as a preliminary step, you’re creating a whole new avenue for the legislative branch to basically discipline the executive branch, … Late Edition.

We owe it to each other – and to our children and grandchildren – to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

Our nation will have the capacity to build this critical component of our national security structure for the 21st century. It was a great risk in my view to have a diminished number of these...

they’re going to pay an awful price politically and it hurts the country terribly in my view.

American workers are first rate.

Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

You have to address that.

The world changed on September 11, 2001.

There’s been a list of witnesses who have come forward — seven different people who corroborated that Mr. Bolton tried to fire a defense analyst. Not just one — seven different people, all within this...

The vice president was the leader of the effort here to get us into this war in Iraq,

That’s not what you want to send up, a person that doesn’t have the confidence of the Congress, and so many people who have urged that he not be sent up to do that job.

I would hope the president would think a little longer about this from his perspective,

There is a sense here among people of …both persuasions here that we need to get this over with. There is a danger of this thing spinning out of control again and going on way...

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

(Although) there’s no existing evidence here that Karl Rove is about to be indicted … the president has to make a determination as to whether or not he wants to be preoccupied with legal issues...

The 103rd Fighter Wing is battle-hardened from its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has a distinguished record of providing close air support to our soldiers and marines on the ground,