Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of...

For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an...

Our nationwide hearings made it clear that Americans considered border security a matter of national security and this bill reflects that fact.

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.

My father’s generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn’t seem right, don’t do it. If it violates your own principles, don’t do it.

One of the parts of this that I studied over in France when I went over on a governmental exchange, and I studied the whole nuclear waste issue.

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action against Iraq.

We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.

There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.

One of the things we stress is, you’ve got to get interoperability and communications, or else you’re going to have disaster no matter what goes on.

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely...

I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life, no matter what the project.

The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control...

The Clinton tax increase – which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people – not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in...

Well, it’s not a pleasant experience. And it’s a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.

It’s time to renew our commitment to the world around us.

The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and...

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world’s peace and to the welfare...

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in...

It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.

It was a great party because not only did I win the contested primary, I ran ahead of the incumbent, so it was a great start politically.

We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established...

Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which...

The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush’s wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president’s efforts to wrap his radical agenda...

I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

Tonight – by taking this solemn oath – I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we...

I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents...

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.