I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

Our government shouldn’t tell us where to travel and where not to travel.

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.

In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States – blessed with the world’s strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society – remains a model and leader to the world.

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America’s strength is not our diversity; it is our...

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you’re not going to get a heck of a lot done.

We’ve been through about a million different line-ups throughout our career.

The federal government must accept its responsibility to secure our nation’s borders. In the face of global terrorism, doing so is imperative.

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected...

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

President Bush is doing everything in his power to restrict and eventually eliminate a women’s constitutionally protected right to abortion.

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be – in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world.

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn’t,...

To restore and keep the public’s confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation,...

Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out...

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other...

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus...

We are, in fact, abiding by the law, which basically says that once there’s a certification, you have five days to ask for a recount.

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to...

With Enron and WorldCom and others, this is the last time in the world that the Senate should weaken conflict-of-interest standards.

Go by your own conscience.

Things happened there that I don’t think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an...

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

Let me close as I did in Gander on September 11, 2002 when I went to that community to thank the people of Gander and the people of Canada for the overwhelming support and help...

We get more oil from Canada than any country.

On Veterans Day, we take time to honor those men and women who bravely serve and have served our nation in the U.S. Armed Forces.

America is providing the kind of leadership that the world respects and the world has come to understand; that is what America stands for.

When the people of the United States commenced their war for independence against Great Britain, the friends of Britain charged them with ingratitude.

We run very strongly with the Asian community, with the Hispanic community, not as well yet with the Black community. I think that’s coming.

And if you do all you can, that’s all you can ever do.

Journalists, by the way, are not just being targeted verbally or politically. They are also being targeted for real in places like Iraq.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

Herbert’s life integrated prayer, study, teaching and pastoral care, embodying his understanding of the priest as a man of God, a teacher and pastor.

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

The challenge, of course, for us in that is that that increase in global energy demand will necessitate a 40 percent increase in OPEC oil production.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.

The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.

It is true that the results of the American intervention in Afghanistan will certainly be a far more democratic Afghanistan, and I welcome that.

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind...

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it’s got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China – the greatest and oldest despotism in the world – for a cheap working slave.

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you’re a...