In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their...

If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future’s ahead and not behind.

As I think all Americans understand on both sides of the aisle, the Social Security system as it is structured today is a pay-as-you-go system.

And yet, if we don’t, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can’t properly address those regional priorities that we would like to.

In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

I thank God tonight for freedom – those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past – those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.

I have been working closely with local officials to promote the valuable contributions of the plant to the nation, the state, and the local community.

I’m an average person.

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

I’m a compassionate conservative.

Are the Native Hawaiians going to be able to control their own land and their own money? When the land was seen as worthless, nobody gave a damn.

Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of...

For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an...

Our nationwide hearings made it clear that Americans considered border security a matter of national security and this bill reflects that fact.

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.

My father’s generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn’t seem right, don’t do it. If it violates your own principles, don’t do it.

One of the parts of this that I studied over in France when I went over on a governmental exchange, and I studied the whole nuclear waste issue.

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action against Iraq.

We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.

There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.

One of the things we stress is, you’ve got to get interoperability and communications, or else you’re going to have disaster no matter what goes on.

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

People can expect to see a lot of me – I’m not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the...

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when – perhaps especially when – you don’t feel like being a leader.

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a...

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

There is a sign that hangs on my wall that says, ‘What is it you want me to do to somebody else that is more important than what you want me to do for you?’

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

I’ve always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.

Those who are terrorists with their genesis in Afghanistan have a goal of creating a fundamentalist Muslim caliphate all across the Middle East.

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.