My father’s generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn’t seem right, don’t do it. If it violates your own principles, don’t do it.

One of the parts of this that I studied over in France when I went over on a governmental exchange, and I studied the whole nuclear waste issue.

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action against Iraq.

We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.

There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.

One of the things we stress is, you’ve got to get interoperability and communications, or else you’re going to have disaster no matter what goes on.

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely...

I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life, no matter what the project.

The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control...

The Clinton tax increase – which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people – not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in...

Well, it’s not a pleasant experience. And it’s a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.

It’s time to renew our commitment to the world around us.

The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and...

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world’s peace and to the welfare...

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in...

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.

I am appreciative of the Bush administration’s commitment to fair trade by looking at the facts in this case and ruling affirmatively for the implementation of quotas in this specific category.

While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by...

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

I’ve spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in.

Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you’re talking about an overwhelming win. I don’t think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.

We’ve outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there’s major competition from India and China. It’s not enough to make income tax cuts permanent.

In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their...

If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future’s ahead and not behind.

As I think all Americans understand on both sides of the aisle, the Social Security system as it is structured today is a pay-as-you-go system.

And yet, if we don’t, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can’t properly address those regional priorities that we would like to.

In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

I thank God tonight for freedom – those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past – those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.