Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they...

We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies...

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.

We need an umbrella under which we can put all of the President’s programs and end up with the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country.

As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in our country, we believe in our people, and we believe...

Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that...

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

Moderates shouldn’t be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he’s laid it forward. He’s fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

Democracy doesn’t recognize east or west; democracy is simply people’s will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.

I invested in many companies, and I’m happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don’t like capitalism, you don’t like making...

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats.

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go...

We’re not going to baby sit a civil war.

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

I wouldn’t miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I’d do it all over again, every single minute.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced – what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men’s minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.

Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals.

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you’re talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you’re part of that leadership.

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and...

I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research.

At a time when we have much work to do to address our Nation’s critical infrastructure, and, as I said, which is currently in dire need of upgrade and repair, this legislation is also a...

For the life of me, I don’t understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen,...

The idea that we’re going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life.

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It’s good for our party. But I’ve got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been...

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.