I invested in many companies, and I’m happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don’t like capitalism, you don’t like making...

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in...

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.

I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It’s...

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these...

Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital… with God’s creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.

There’s a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country,...

Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he’s running against.

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men’s minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.

Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals.

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you’re talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you’re part of that leadership.

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and...

I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research.

At a time when we have much work to do to address our Nation’s critical infrastructure, and, as I said, which is currently in dire need of upgrade and repair, this legislation is also a...

For the life of me, I don’t understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen,...

The idea that we’re going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life.

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It’s good for our party. But I’ve got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been...

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians… is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you...

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.

And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically...

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.

The foreign national cannot be released in the United States but must be removed to the country from which they entered the U.S.

We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we’ve seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it’s not screwed up by too many references.

It’s not important to me to found a school; it’s not important to me to have disciples.

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world’s economic leader.

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too – we all pay...

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at...

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.