Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found.

We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner...

Well, WorldCom’s growth exploded in the Clinton years, there’s no question, there’s no disputing that.

Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can’t beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats.

The fact is that we wouldn’t be in Iraq if it weren’t for Democrats like Senator Kerry.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.

I think that I’ve tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works.

We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the...

The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation’s fiscal house in order.

Over 30 States, including Oklahoma, are now required by Congress to print bilingual or multilingual ballots in at least some parts of those States.

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can’t print enough bad news about our troops.

The U.S.-Israel Energy Cooperation Act will help curb America’s reliance on foreign oil and increase our use of new energy technologies.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

The ability to change one’s views without losing one’s seat is the mark of a great politician.

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman’s right to vote.

But most people don’t come up to me and express a lot of emotion.

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of...

As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we’ve been focused on the quality debate for most of the...

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they’re better off working.

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause...

It is not government’s job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do...

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our...

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet’s nest.

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple...

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

It’s appropriate to show the differences on issues between the candidates and to educate the public so they can make a decision.

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That’s 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.

The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren’t the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration’s policy...

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

The American people are overwhelmingly supportive of a constitutional amendment that will protect traditional marriage between one man and one woman.

The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers...

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don’t care how much planning you do, the first 72...

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro’, so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Many people experience Gethsemane moments.

I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.