People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Meat and poultry is safe. It’s safer than it’s probably ever been.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

I am furious that the Iraqi Government would even consider giving a green light to the criminal insurgents who attack our troops.

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

We consume about 25 percent of the world’s oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

At 18 you got drafted. Another fellow who lived on the same street and I signed up for the V-12 program, which was the naval officer training program.

Our Nation’s scientific research must adhere to the highest ethical standards. But it is important that we do embryonic stem cell research.

I agree with the President that second-guessing is not a strategy, but at the same time, I want to continue the dialogue that ultimately will lead to bringing all of our troops home.

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly...

I don’t give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.

I am against the notion of style in itself.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn’t have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans’ access to quality medical care.

We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can’t have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.

In restaurants, you never have enough money, you’re taking a very diverse group of people and building them into a team with a common purpose.

If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we’d have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It’s hard for anybody...

American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.

When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it...

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine first identified that up to 98,000 Americans die every year as a result of preventable medical errors.

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

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...

Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just...

If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a...

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.

Detente is a particularly unpopular idea with most Republican primary voters and the word is worse. We ought to stop using the word whenever possible.

As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most – an era of hope, change,...

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

Hey, I’m a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.