I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you’re a...

As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.

Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

The President’s speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.

As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on...

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they’re...

I’m a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That’s my business. That’s not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something...

I like John Kerry. I think he’s intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he’s deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he’s an internationalist, which I am.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities – without outside interference.

Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

Responsibility means living up to our government’s constitutional obligation to provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility.

There’s a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it’s actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they’re still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other...

I think we’re in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working...

The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the whole thing. So right now I’m the only one hanging in there.

Well, Hale was one of the first people who suggested to President Johnson that there should be a commission.

Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it’s been sent to India...

Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.

The border sheriffs are locally elected. They’re accountable. They know the territory and the people. And they can respond the most quickly to what is a real national security emergency, because the border is unprotected.

We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and...

Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world.

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn’t,...

To restore and keep the public’s confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation,...

Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out...

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other...

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus...

We are, in fact, abiding by the law, which basically says that once there’s a certification, you have five days to ask for a recount.

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to...

With Enron and WorldCom and others, this is the last time in the world that the Senate should weaken conflict-of-interest standards.

Go by your own conscience.

Things happened there that I don’t think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an...

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

Let me close as I did in Gander on September 11, 2002 when I went to that community to thank the people of Gander and the people of Canada for the overwhelming support and help...

We get more oil from Canada than any country.

On Veterans Day, we take time to honor those men and women who bravely serve and have served our nation in the U.S. Armed Forces.

America is providing the kind of leadership that the world respects and the world has come to understand; that is what America stands for.

When the people of the United States commenced their war for independence against Great Britain, the friends of Britain charged them with ingratitude.

We run very strongly with the Asian community, with the Hispanic community, not as well yet with the Black community. I think that’s coming.

And if you do all you can, that’s all you can ever do.

Journalists, by the way, are not just being targeted verbally or politically. They are also being targeted for real in places like Iraq.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.