To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

So, to me, it’s a question of not being afraid to embrace the tradition but also not being afraid to dive into boiling oil on occasion.

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life… The law needs to be clear...

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation’s history and the world’s future.

A free state cannot exist, our free state of the United States collectively, cannot exist without the right of the people to defend themselves.

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of ‘let’s do it,’ the costs were very small. They were less than they’d had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives....

Americans simply ask for, not just Democrats in the House but also the Senate has asked the President for a clear plan as it relates to dealing with the issue of Iraq and our troops...

On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy.

A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

It’s very popular to spend other people’s money. You can get buildings named after yourself. But it’s a disgrace because this isn’t our money.

It’s a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can’t support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives.

Japan’s inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken...

Employers often break the law in hiring these workers to satisfy a short-term business need with long-term negative consequences.

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to...

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.

But the wicked passions of men’s hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.

I don’t know what leadership is. You can’t touch it. You can’t feel it. It’s not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also...

We grew the federal government’s role in education when we should have been focusing on the key missions of the federal government.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you...

We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield...

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Meat and poultry is safe. It’s safer than it’s probably ever been.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

I am furious that the Iraqi Government would even consider giving a green light to the criminal insurgents who attack our troops.

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

We consume about 25 percent of the world’s oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

At 18 you got drafted. Another fellow who lived on the same street and I signed up for the V-12 program, which was the naval officer training program.

Our Nation’s scientific research must adhere to the highest ethical standards. But it is important that we do embryonic stem cell research.

I agree with the President that second-guessing is not a strategy, but at the same time, I want to continue the dialogue that ultimately will lead to bringing all of our troops home.

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly...