Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren’t just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone’s life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

America’s best defense against terrorists trying to sneak into our country is to trust the good hearts and the good sense of American citizens.

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.

While America’s infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don’t subsidize, we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars.

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

Teachers are held accountable for educating our children in school. We as parents should be held accountable for our children at home.

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

That’s a good question. Let me try to evade you.

You know, if you didn’t pay close attention, you’d think we were the only people in Iraq and the only people fighting the terrorists.

The growth of our economy has been fueled by tax relief enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Bush over the past four years.

I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.

Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.

No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.

Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.

I will continue to work diligently in Congress to ensure that our veterans receive the benefits and care that they have earned and deserve.

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the...

Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.

I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and...

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also...

We grew the federal government’s role in education when we should have been focusing on the key missions of the federal government.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you...

We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield...

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Meat and poultry is safe. It’s safer than it’s probably ever been.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

I am furious that the Iraqi Government would even consider giving a green light to the criminal insurgents who attack our troops.

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

We consume about 25 percent of the world’s oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

At 18 you got drafted. Another fellow who lived on the same street and I signed up for the V-12 program, which was the naval officer training program.

Our Nation’s scientific research must adhere to the highest ethical standards. But it is important that we do embryonic stem cell research.

I agree with the President that second-guessing is not a strategy, but at the same time, I want to continue the dialogue that ultimately will lead to bringing all of our troops home.

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?