Major policy decisions that affect them are now made by the courts, the bureaucracy and ‘The Headquarters’ of various organizations.

Good government is good politics.

Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber – starting with me – has a monopoly on being right.

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

It’s time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It’s time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for...

If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling – largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling – grew by an alarming 20 percent between...

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

You know what this argument is about, because the American people know what this argument is about, it is about money. That is all it is about, money.

It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used...

I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy.

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Remember, gentlemen, you have, by your votes, in this free State of Ohio, so treated a part of her people, these black men and women.

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the...

Leadership is an active role; ‘lead’ is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

But here too it should be noted that the President’s approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do...

Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

It’s an embarrassment that we don’t have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.

This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the...

I’m not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

Roosevelt’s humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.

We would not have our country’s vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that’s correct.

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

You don’t have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life’s too short to have it any other way.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

Why stick your neck out if you don’t have to? If you’re right nobody will remember and if you’re wrong people will ask a lot of questions.

We won’t always have the strongest military.

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it’s good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

But I recognize that I was elected not only by the members of my own party, but the large numbers of independents and republicans as well.

This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age – a Golden Age – of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because...

This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don’t like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in...

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn’t pose a serious...

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

I just didn’t want to admit that he was dead.

While the system runs a short-term surplus today, we collect more in Social Security taxes than we pay out today in Social Security benefits.

As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority.

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

I’m thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.

No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let’s support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children...