Let us get it right. Let us focus on Afghanistan and make sure that the underground black market drug economy does not continue to fund terrorism.

Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major illness or injury strikes.

Oh no, no, no. There are no sacred cows.

We are getting our clock cleaned by China.

In each instance, when we were talking about this, we were told that the high-wage jobs were going to stay here and that we were going to give the lower-paying jobs, the jobs that Americans...

The kids are doing a great job. They love it. It amazes me how much they just fall for these musicals. This one is 60 years old, but the kids find it as fresh and...

They understand that they’ve got to come to play. Without coming to play, they can lose to anybody.

Competing interests … Katrina, the war … everything is competing.

The threat when people do not move along with everyone else is, the whole system collapses.

That goes all of the way back to what was the planning, what was the end game, what was the exit strategy for both of these wars?

If you look at the suburbs, it’s a boomtown. There’s tremendous economic activity, but I don’t think the world beyond New Orleans sees that. It’s just not something the national press is reporting on.

This is an unusual situation and the provision is in there for just this circumstance. It would be wise for the president to utilize it.

Student loans being run by the banks. The banks are in on the deal now.

The one statistic that former Secretary Reich shared with us last week was that one in five of the jobs in the United States of America that were lost have been lost in the State...

This year, as a nation, our resolve must be to let their service renew our mission to build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

We’re disappointed right now. But I think these kids should be very proud. I can’t ask more than what they’ve done.

This creates a love of learning. We need to develop a love of learning in general … that will help us be a competitive country.

But I really think that this administration, very similar to the first President Bush’s administration, has really gotten out of touch with average American families.

But what we’re really concerned with is the fact that we’re losing our defense industrial base.

He said, ‘This is Tim Ryan’s new congressional district,’

It is hard to look at the amount of damage in the two states and say it’s equal, but the time to fight that battle is gone. Without Louisiana and Mississippi working together, Louisiana might...

There are not many Americans that want to move to China. There just are not that many.

Listen, we’re losing so much manufacturing, all over the United States.

I’m proud to be introducing a comprehensive and innovative plan that provides federal dollars to a wide-range of services and programs that will help families raise healthy children, prevent unwanted pregnancies, and, in turn, reduce...

That takes a lot of energy when you’re down, to come back. They had the energy at the end. We didn’t have it.

You can’t understand it until you’re in it: the demands, the time and the commitments.

Throughout our history, brave men and women have answered the call to defend and protect our democracy.

We can provide incentives for people to graduate in math and science and engineering and the different kind of technological industries that we need them to graduate in.

You need an exit strategy. You need a game plan. And we have not been able to do it in Iraq, and we have not been able to do it in Afghanistan.

It’s hard to imagine a major city growing and thriving without having universities. They will really give a breath of new life to the city.

They should not let profits take precedence over traditional democratic values such as freedom of speech.

We were told that all this new high technology, all these new high-tech jobs that we were going to be creating here in the United States of America would stay here, so our people would...

Our government must celebrate, honor, and remember these faithful men and women through its actions.

I think we were a little timid to start the game. We had some trouble getting into our stuff.

It’s very difficult for a small business to withstand months and months of no income. And big employers might not have the employees they need.

You may not finish the same, but you should start the same at the beginning.

We are getting beat up. We look like Rocky Balboa at the end of Rocky I.

And whether one always agreed with this Pope or not, regardless of the political pressure that was being put from certain quarters in certain interest groups on certain countries, the Pope was always very consistent.

Two-and-a-half billion dollars, one-half of the GDP of Afghanistan is poppy, 70 percent of that sold in Europe as opium, funding through the black market, the terrorists cells not only in this country but all...

(Speight) was great with the ball. We needed the ball in his hands. I thought we executed what we were trying to do, and we hit some shots.

We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.

Giving veterans the support they’ve earned is not only the right thing to do morally; it is the right thing to do for our troops fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

He’s been unstoppable all year. He’s our horse, and we ride him.