We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide...

If ever we had proof that our nation’s pollution laws aren’t working, it’s reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.

But wishing our Kansas soldiers ‘God speed’ is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face.

If we have a completely different design that’s different from anything else, we have a great opportunity to do well. So that’s the key.

There’s probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you’re convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there’ll be...

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders – but how we go about securing them is also important.

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

Slovakia’s joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

People didn’t always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying,...

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.

In today’s world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves...

George Bush paid with his presidency for a very bad decision. We can’t raise taxes, we can’t regulate more, and we can’t create new departments.

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

I would submit to you today that this is the easiest thing in this body that could be done with Democrats and Republicans to simplify the Tax Code.

The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.

It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.

Our ports are not only critical entryways into our nation that must be protected but they are critical entryways to our economy.

We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America’s 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could...

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

No one is pro-abortion.

Ideally the world would look like Davos, where there’s more security than we can even see on the street.

And it is not our job to be the high court of appeals that overrules what courts do, state courts and federal courts now, in a particular case.

Over the next several months we’ll find reasons to disagree. Our path will not be easy. Yet our opportunity will never be so great.

When the students are occupied, they’re not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote.

The services provided to patients are so much broader in scope than in the past, all of that costs more money and I believe that it all has value.

The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across...

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security...

Washington’s entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.

Our first ideal is our country, and we see her in the future, as in the past, giving service to all her people and to the world.

If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.

Interestingly enough, I met and had classes from several professors that my father had had many years before when he took civil engineering.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are...

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.