At the very time you’re trying to rebuild small businesses, you want to try and send a message to them that we don’t care about them anymore?

He speaks with such economy of words. It is the mark of a really brilliant person who is so clear in his thinking, so precise in his thinking that he can communicate very complex thoughts...

I think this will be a difficult race,

This damage could just as easily have been caused by a terrorist attack, and many if not most of the same elements are involved in responding to natural disasters.

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

You need to go home and wait in line with everybody in their home. This is the pure amnesty question right here.

While I appreciate my colleagues’ desire to try to draw you out on your personal views about matters, I think you have drawn the line at an appropriate place,

We need to understand from the key authorities what went wrong, what should have been done, and most importantly, what needs to be done so we’re ready next time.

We’ve got double talk here,

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.