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.

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they – not someone else – must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

The doctrines of his party, are that negro slavery, as it exists with us, is religiously, morally, socially, and politically wrong.

The world has become rapidly more competitive.

There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.

For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is projected to be the largest of all.

The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those...

A Harris poll I’ve seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health...

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

Nobody gets any guarantees.

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world’s most deadly and disabling diseases.

The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs.

Gonzales’s nomination may very well do us more harm internationally because of his relationship with the terror memos and that is a different story.

It would be great if people with disabilities could unite with women, unite with minorities who depend on government enforcement.

Maybe it is a secret as to when you are leaving to go to war, but when you are coming home is something that I think our troops need to know.

We do thank our men and women in uniform. And I thank them. I thank this House today that approved a bill that will allow for a pay raise for our military. We are grateful...

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

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do...

Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration’s current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector...

To build a home or open a business, it’s so frustrating because you have to go to so many different offices at City Hall and get run-around answers.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

We don’t mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in...

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.

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.