The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

As a matter of fact, we are sustaining a battalion’s worth of casualties every month wounded and killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

I’ve always felt that you can’t do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.

One doesn’t become a soldier in a week – it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this water is so important for.

An indictment is not a conviction.

I don’t care what you label me as long as you call me president.

People have said I’m the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

The way we’re going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we’re going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made...

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been this city’s greatest strength.

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and...

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation’s standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into...

There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.

I talk all the time about the importance to the metro area of the Rocky Mountains and the Western heritage of cowboys and ranching.

The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work...

So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.

Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know...

I’m going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete.

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

Well, I can’t agree with you more, and I really wish every piece of mine were recorded, and I wish I had spent more time trying to pursue that.

This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won’t fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services.

It’s time for America to rally behind a bipartisan agenda that means jobs and growth and billions of dollars of new capital spending.

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.

The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is...

In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join...

Thirty years of environmental extremist policies on energy consumption in this Nation leads to the situation that we have today.

Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.

Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.

You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier.

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as...

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

That’s the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn’t work, you try another.

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing...

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you’re facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we’ve ever had.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.