Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries – not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.

Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines – not to send more troops to Iraq – but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America’s long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Our government just won’t enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

Mrs. Parks’ act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

We were never meant to be the world’s greatest debtor nation. We were never meant to have our ancestors’ patrimony sold to the highest foreign bidder.

Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

For in our high schools today,a young person can graduate from most of our high schools with but two years of math and two years of science.

What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.

We as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone.

Free trade should not mean free labor.

I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

Eventually all of us will have to sacrifice a little to pull our Nation through this time; we’ve done it before and we’ll have to do it again.

Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.

We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.

The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.

Hundreds of American soldiers have given their lives in Afghanistan to promote liberty, including freedom of conscience and religion.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can’t fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

Obviously I wouldn’t have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It’s been a marvelous and important experience.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum...

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less...

I am always inspired by the community spirit and leadership I witness from African-Americans in New York and around the country.

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

I supported the war in Afghanistan because 3000 of our people were murdered and I thought we had a right to defend the people of the United States.

Look, I’m not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what...

I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be...

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.