We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the...

Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and...

I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they’ve paid taxes, they’ve been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people...

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let’s all be friends in Washington philosophy.

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an...

The president’s very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there’s only one part of our entire government, state or local, that...

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these...

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival ’till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes...

As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.

I hate to lose the constituency that I’ve worked with, but I’ve got 170,000 people to meet in my new district.

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries,...

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn...

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of...

Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from...

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.

When the public’s right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington – in their heart of hearts – really believe that the system can’t be too bad because it produced them.

We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem.

We’re in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build...

Roosevelt’s magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition...

The simple fact is we cannot plant dead dinosaurs underneath our continental United States to create oil. It is simply not there.

We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power.

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

Of the fellows least likely to be president, you’d have to vote Jack No. 1.

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.

When the President makes something a priority, we see action.

We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.

A country’s adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

You are not satisfied with the millions of tribute we have been paying you on account of the balance of exchange which you hold against us.

You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

We’re about an hour out of Manhattan up in northern NJ. We’ve got a ski slope in our town and horse riding and all that kind of stuff.

Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to...

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

A healthy state encourages many voices – and lots of listening.

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

As a mother and grandmother, I can tell you firsthand that the first years of a child’s life are crucial to his or her development.

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis...

The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and ’62.