because he’s a tough guy who supports the president’s policies.

As long as he continues to oppose our efforts to reform the department, I can’t say they get it.

has been a longtime champion of Medicare modernization, and of providing seniors with access to preventive medicine and the new drugs that are transforming health care in this country. I saw this commitment firsthand in...

Forest Service resources need to be concentrated on the most critical acres and communities at risk across the regions.

[Heirs to the $84 billion Wal-Mart fortune, for example,] would save billions of dollars in tax … Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth.

It’s not consistent with somebody who knows national security information and how to treat it.

God forbid that there be a terrorist attack that could have been prevented by the Patriot Act after it has expired.

Because the nominee might be perceived by some to be more conservative in their view than Justice O’Connor, somebody is going to make the argument that this then makes this more extraordinary, and therefore try...

If 90-plus percent of the Democrats vote against…and 90-plus percent of the Republicans vote for…. it is hard to argue it is not partisan.

I want you to know that I will defend your refusal to answer any question that you believe to be improper,

One way that we might encourage others to come forth with potential savings is to demonstrate that we ourselves are willing to forgo this COLA, … It’s a gesture that members of the Senate ought...

There has to be a plan in place?along with adequate resources? to be able to evacuate people, or at least provide relief supplies before panic sets in. None of this appears to have been done...

It is so addictive, … There is no supervision.

There should be no reason we cannot move forward, … We will be back.

It ought to be done by the elected officials themselves because they have the credibility. And it’s not like we aren’t willing to help.

crack cocaine of gambling.

War is tough, and there are casualties. And just before victory, sometimes, it gets most violent.

I have been a firm believer that it was always a question of when, not if, our vulnerabilities would be exploited by someone with malicious intent, … The events of the last three days confirm...

Tax relief that focuses on improving the quantity and reliability of supply, without adversely affecting the environment, will help prevent a repeat of what happened at the pump after Katrina, and help bring prices back...

As long as you pay for the travel, the hotel accommodations, the train or plane ticket or whatever it might be before December 31, you will be able to take on this year’s taxes, a...

At 47 percent, the (estate) tax today is a great inhibitor to growth, … and is also a business-ending event.

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need...

He is a lawyer and judge of the school that says, you take the cases as they come. You decide on the basis of the facts and law, and you don’t let ideology get in...

We couldn’t enhance the intelligence budget in large part because of the administration,

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

The establishment of this center is a fitting tribute to a man who loved Arizona and dedicated his life to the rule of law.

Basic human principles don’t change, but demographics and other circumstances do, and so should our responses to them.

It is the only time that . . . you’ll have the opportunity to be directly lobbied in the political context in an appropriate way.

If we would simply take about a fourth of that and all of the various pork projects that were in the highway bill, and redirect some of that to the Gulf region, we would have...

I know they’re bright people so it’s not like they didn’t get it,

According to the National Security Administration, there are over a hundred countries that are working on techniques to penetrate our information infrastructure. Many of them are aimed at the Defense Department and high security areas...

In deciding the case, the Supreme Court not only, in my view, engaged in questionable analysis of American law, it spent perhaps 20 percent of its legal analysis discussing the laws of Great Britain, Saudi...

There is a reason for both sides to compromise here for something that would be short of full repeal but would still provide a substantial reduction,

The new Medicare prescription drug benefit takes full effect at the end of this year, and it will provide a very valuable option to seniors, many of whom have never had such a benefit before.

If anything was new, I think it was a reassertion of his commitment to secure the border,

He said, ‘The buck stops with me; I’m in charge,’ … You heard him here assuming full responsibility by blaming others. That’s not the way to assume full responsibility.

I am convinced (Roberts) meant what he said,

For the record, it is certainly the case that there needs to be prize consideration for gambling, … Clearly, if it is legal in the state and there is no prize offered, I can’t see...

More than a billion dollars will be gambled over the Internet this year, … Internet gambling is addictive, accessible to minors, subject to fraud and other criminal use, evasive of state gambling laws and already...

Even if you win, you have no idea if you’ll be paid off.

Beyond the notion of returning the rule of law to the border, the single most important aspect of this bill is that it does not reward those who have broken the law and does not...

It’s a symptom of too much government largesse. Everyone is elbowing their way to the trough to get their fair share.

The amount of money was relatively insignificant back then, … Now it is hundreds of billions of dollars. It is incredible.

the resolution is well-written.

Our intelligence agencies lack the ability to confidently detect low-yield tests.

When some Internet gambling sites in Aruba, for example, submits the bill to Master Charge or Bank of America and says, Joe Blow here gambled away $1,000 of his money, put it on the credit...

We can’t continue with this sort of cat and mouse game that has characterized the relationship,

When police retrace the history of a serial predator after he is finally caught, they often find that he never had a prior criminal conviction, but did have a prior arrest. That means the only...

We’ve got to set an agenda that deals with a lot of different things here, and where estate tax fits into that is just not known at this time.

justify reductions in spending in other programs.