We’re taught as young kids: Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, … It’s cathartic. That’s what I think the speech did. He didn’t just try to blame someone else.

For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

She’s gone out of her way to nurse an image that’s more than just an antagonist of Fidel Castro. To her credit, she’s been very effective and holds a valued opinion on a diverse range...

We’ve seen how (terrorists) have used our state to assemble, so it’s really critical we have the voice of Floridians represented,

Mr. Gore has conceded, and that should have been the end of this, … further diminishes his ability to govern at this perilous time.

I’ve been telling my colleagues sooner or later we would face a catastrophe unfathomable in financial terms and the insurance companies would not be able to bear it,

America’s collective heart goes out to the families of those lost in today’s tragedy. From America to Israel, you are in our thoughts and prayers. As a member of Congress, I’ll do everything possible to...

I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature – publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have...

[Mr. Foley called the ensuing evening a,] difficult, gut-wrenching night. If the administration thinks that the sugar industry brought about the demise of this, there would have been hell to pay in the farm bill,...

Entrance into the United States is not a guaranteed right.

This mismanagement is not helping anyone,

We suffered from the hurricanes last year, and I will howl if their legislation gets some special consideration over Florida’s.

We’re enabling the next generation of consumer electronics.

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

This is going to have a huge economic impact, not only on growers, but on workers living paycheck to paycheck,

His strength was his strength. He seemed super-human.

If our ports are the most vulnerable targets for terrorism and if we are at war, as the president says, we should be overly critical of handing over management of our ports to any foreign...

We have so many huge problems, and it is frustrating to somebody like myself when we are reduced to partisan fire with bazookas,

They prey on our children like animals and will continue to do so until we stop them,

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

We’re all going to miss him. He brought sunshine in the morning.

How do you do tax cuts when your budget is straining to save lives?

I am concerned about what further reporting could lead to.

A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

[Moderates] are listening, they’re learning they want to be engaged, they want to be courted. They are not just going to say I am a Republican only. They aren’t monolithic. The economy is a winner...

If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

FEMA should not be hindered by a top-heavy bureaucracy when they are needed to act swiftly to save lives.

He used to say to us at times, you know, what we need to do as Republicans is learn to sell our message, and he was constantly looking for ways to market the message. And...

She looks carefully and critically at every issue and bases her vote not on partisanship but on the right decision, and that’s probably the most valuable trait for something as important as protecting our nation,

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.

But the recent bombings [in London] are a wake-up call to all nations that we have to do more. If you look through the prism of no new terror incidents occurring in this country, it...

In addition, international travel to the United States is now the largest service export with a generated trade surplus for 16 consecutive years.

This isn’t like the SATs, … where if you don’t understand the question you go on to the next one.

[The agency has never faced as costly a challenge as Katrina and Rita, and Republicans and Democrats alike are calling for an inspector general, an auditor or some other overseer of the billions in taxpayer...

It’s an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement . . . it seems like FEMA is just a money pit.

And now as we turn our sights on Iran and North Korea, we urge them to join other nations in surrendering these dangerous weapons.

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

We’ve avoided any new attack to this date, so obviously the system is working,

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

This is, after all, a country that still sees the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan and still fails to recognize Israel as a sovereign state.

We’re going to spend the next 30 days at least focused on relief restoration rather than business as usual.

CAFTA is not the problem. If (the protections are) taken away in the 2007 Farm Bill, they will be completely open to any all sugar … that enters the market, and that would be worse...

By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.

The gulf coast, we all know now, after Katrina, is responsible for 25 percent of U.S. production of natural gas. Following Katrina and Rita, almost 75 percent of the natural gas production in the gulf...

We track library books better than we do sexual predators.

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and...

[President Bush was quoted as saying to Mr. Foley in the Wall Street Journal,] Foley, I know this is tough on you buddy, … I know you’re a good friend and a good soldier. Just...

I said, `Over my dead body,’

Six of our largest commercial ports are being handed over to a country that is seeking to be Iran’s free trade partner and has been linked to the funding and planning of 9-11.

Currently, for every three workers contributing to Social Security there is one retiree receiving benefits paid for by those workers.