So, to me, it’s a question of not being afraid to embrace the tradition but also not being afraid to dive into boiling oil on occasion.

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life… The law needs to be clear...

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation’s history and the world’s future.

A free state cannot exist, our free state of the United States collectively, cannot exist without the right of the people to defend themselves.

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of ‘let’s do it,’ the costs were very small. They were less than they’d had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives....

Americans simply ask for, not just Democrats in the House but also the Senate has asked the President for a clear plan as it relates to dealing with the issue of Iraq and our troops...

On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy.

A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

It’s very popular to spend other people’s money. You can get buildings named after yourself. But it’s a disgrace because this isn’t our money.

It’s a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can’t support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives.

Japan’s inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken...

Employers often break the law in hiring these workers to satisfy a short-term business need with long-term negative consequences.

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to...

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.

But the wicked passions of men’s hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.

It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.

Our ports are not only critical entryways into our nation that must be protected but they are critical entryways to our economy.

We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America’s 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could...

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

No one is pro-abortion.

Ideally the world would look like Davos, where there’s more security than we can even see on the street.

And it is not our job to be the high court of appeals that overrules what courts do, state courts and federal courts now, in a particular case.

Over the next several months we’ll find reasons to disagree. Our path will not be easy. Yet our opportunity will never be so great.

When the students are occupied, they’re not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote.

The services provided to patients are so much broader in scope than in the past, all of that costs more money and I believe that it all has value.

The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across...

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security...

Washington’s entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.

Our first ideal is our country, and we see her in the future, as in the past, giving service to all her people and to the world.

If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.

Interestingly enough, I met and had classes from several professors that my father had had many years before when he took civil engineering.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are...

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

I don’t believe in social equality, and they know it.

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.

Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.