The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

We’ve set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them – regardless of race, gender, ethnicity...

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

We have permitted them to become immensely rich against all sound republican policy, and they have turned upon us to sting us to death.

The Republicans are coming – make nice.

I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o’clock in the evening.

Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation...

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went...

It is unbelievable that at a time of high unemployment this administration is threatening to veto legislation that would actually create real jobs.

Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.

I’ve waffled before. I’ll waffle again.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

I don’t understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the ‘perfect,’ when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

For me, words are just words, nothing else.

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin’s most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God...

I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city – for one Chicago.

We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.

The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country – including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the...

If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn’t think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until...

The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns – including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable...

For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health...

The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don’t have enough border patrol agents.

Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible...

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to...

Not that one shouldn’t use all of those technical advantage, but the essence of what’s being communicated shouldn’t be technology.

Our schools are among the best in the nation, so I’ll continue to work for excellence and ensure that they are accountable, drug-free, and safe.

I kept telling everyone I wasn’t going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my...

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our...

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet’s nest.

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple...

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

It’s appropriate to show the differences on issues between the candidates and to educate the public so they can make a decision.

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That’s 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.

These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they...

Another part of the global war on terrorism that Canada and the United States are working on together is in helping failed states, states like Afghanistan, where people have no voice.

Following the strike, I think the thing that brought people back to baseball was the big home run contest between Sosa and McGwire.