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...

In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot...

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American...

This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as...

Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don’t.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Iraq is very violent and dangerous, and that is the problem for us as Americans. We don’t like seeing our men and women in harm’s way.

Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are...

We have to face it: in America today the way to have fun and celebrate is to break a store window and take something. That’s the way it is, today in America, and we have...

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part...

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don’t have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we...

Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.

Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

Everybody’s got to do what they’ve got to do.

We need to spend more money to insure that our troops are properly equipped.

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of...

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it’s expensive to boot.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

There is no doubt that our nation’s security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don’t buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by...

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows.

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.

That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking – the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go...

I think there’s bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

I’m going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought...

I don’t have any style.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.

The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.