In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and...

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.

We need to spend more money to insure that our troops are properly equipped.

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of...

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it’s expensive to boot.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

There is no doubt that our nation’s security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don’t buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by...

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows.

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.

That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking – the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go...

I think there’s bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

I’m going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought...

I don’t have any style.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.