My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had...

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

I’m always a little cautious, there’s a few amendments that are out there that I think could do some damage, so I’ve been more concerned about over regulating, going too far..

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind – although...

The Highlands is a vast area of land which stretches from Connecticut to Pennsylvania, and my district is smack in the middle of it in New York.

I was proud to support the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, which included a permanent repeal of the Death Tax.

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

But that was a bad deal, nobody liked that, so then we started this primary system, where we have a presidential primary in every state.

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

The same with running for mayor. If I lost the election, I had invested about six months of my time and about $100,000 of my own money.

The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes.

Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase...

Even the best data security systems can’t protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning...

The Commission’s findings underscore that the nation is still vulnerable to attack and that we must move more quickly to make us safer. We must take the Commission’s work and use it to make certain...

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

What’s important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that’s hearing it.

It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement.

Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and...

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

This US Delegation by this visit and these discussions demonstrates to Slovakia and its people American support toward these goals.

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women’s rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had...

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let’s begin at the very beginning...

I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature – publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have...

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

There’s so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They’re too concerned with blasting each other.

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.

The policeman isn’t there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive...

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

We don’t feel we are engaging the regime. Again, what we are doing is removing some objection to something the Europeans are doing.

Everyone matures. When I was Newt’s age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

When you coach as long as I did, you can’t help but miss those Saturdays – dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.