We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced – what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

The President’s budget represents a starting point for what is certain to be a long debate in the Congress over the priorities of government.

The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics.

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.

Privatizing Social Security doesn’t make sense, and it’s out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should...

We must give our commander in chief and our military the capability to respond to these threats in some way other than retaliatory mass destruction.

I did graduate with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1948.

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

We have lost more than 2,000 brave Americans, thousands more have been wounded, and the fiscal cost to the taxpayers has soared into the billions.

Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a...

The pilot came back and said he had just heard that Kennedy was shot.

We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification.

I will vote my hopes and not my fears.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it’s a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

Opportunity means advancing American values in the world by protecting human rights, meeting human needs, and opening global markets.

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need...

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

With us, it’s a very specific audience. If you like steak, this is it for you.

The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market – more choices, lower prices, higher quality – and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits...

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of...

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame’s name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter...

The essence of good government is trust.

I mean, the 7th, the flat 7th which approaches the 7th harmonic, very often comes off sounding like the cry of a frightened child.

I consider it an honor and a privilege to represent you. I love my job, and I will continue to work hard to earn the trust you have placed in me.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you’re an educational innovator, that isn’t where the greatest need is.

Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they...

We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies...

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.

We need an umbrella under which we can put all of the President’s programs and end up with the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country.

As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in our country, we believe in our people, and we believe...

Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that...

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

Moderates shouldn’t be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he’s laid it forward. He’s fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

Democracy doesn’t recognize east or west; democracy is simply people’s will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.