I don’t think we have any time to waste.

Well, we want to make sure there’s not securities fraud.

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

When the government is handed over to the Iraqi Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil unrest may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly depart, but...

We need to go everywhere. There is not one county in this state, I don’t care how far west you go, that doesn’t have Democrats. We have to be proud of who we are.

I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan...

We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and...

I think all writing is done through memory.

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

The way we’re really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new...

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.

All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we...

My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and...

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish...

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.

Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

I really write for people.

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

We didn’t pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

Catholic schools in our Nation’s education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices.

There’s a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that’s not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to...

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn’t work, in many cases it doesn’t even make any sense.

I have nothing to do with counting the votes.

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

Since other countries and terrorist organizations are working to secure information that could threaten national security, more funding is provided in the bill to increase counter-intelligence activities.

The fact is, Bush’s war policy has failed. It’s failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.

What is inherently wrong with the word ‘politician’ if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the...

The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.

Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That’s why we won so big in 1994.

Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them.

While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off...

Honesty is the best policy.

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.

The government of Afghanistan should prove that they are protectors of freedom by releasing Abdul Rahman and protecting him from extremist elements.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.