Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in...

I expect my next job to be outside government.

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government – the people’s...

Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.

Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

When people are wrong, you’ve got to let them know it.

We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State.

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

Don’t fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about — not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of...

I believe that as a nation we must have a bipartisan discussion about how to best preserve and protect Social Security for our seniors and for future generations of Americans.

Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will provide more support indirectly to this war in Iraq than most of the 46 countries...

We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of...

Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying...

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

This cannot be said of Mexico. Not one dollar has she spent for Texas – not one Mexican soldier has ever fought by our side in expelling the savages.

Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done...

A great deal more that we can do, a lot that we can do to save people, to respond better, to make sure people are equipped better.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them… Well, it’s killing me!

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.

The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of...

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects...

What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

The world changed on September 11, 2001.

I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like ‘cut health care costs.’ We would do very well to expect a cut in the rate of increase.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

We’ve heard this before; ‘things are bad, we are gonna fix them,’ and they remain unfixed.

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors’.

Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their – shortcomings, but they were not slothful in...

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is...

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of...

The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

I don’t know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas...

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise...

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the...

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.