| And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat? |
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| As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate. |
| ascribe to their (the religious right's) failed philosophy. |
| But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago. |
| Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will. |
| Don't you get it that this is an issue that's greater than the issue of collective bargaining? Don't you understand that this is an issue of such transcendent importance that you should have acted months ago? ... The patience of this body ... is at an end. |
| Don't you get it? This is an issue which is greater than the issue of collective bargaining. It's about young Americans who are tempted to take these substances into their bodies and some of them commit suicide, |
| Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun. |
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| I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline. |
| I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training. |
| I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also. |
| I do not recommend lightly the course I have called on the president to pursue. I know, as should anyone who votes for this resolution, that if Americans die in a land war with Serbia we will bear a considerable share of the blame for their loss. |
| I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours. |
| I haven't been silent, |
| I think we're a long way from 'falling apart,' ... We could never be placed in the position where the terms of this agreement were dictated to us by the tobacco companies. |
| I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together. |
| I'm not making any demands nor doing any negotiating, ... I have to also have an allegiance to those millions of voters who trusted in me and my commitment to a reform agenda. |
| I'm proud that I have supported many of the issues that have to do with family values, |
| I'm sure the story was exploited by religious extremists, ... But that doesn't change the fact that we have to have reliable and absolutely accurate stories. |
| It's largely symbolic, |
| My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that. |
| On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell. |
| Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. |
| Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. |
| Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice. |
| Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. |
| Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. |
| Over the last few days Governor Bush has said that locking up the Social Security trust fund will save Social Security on its own, ... He's wrong. |
| Perhaps those self-appointed enforcers of party loyalty will learn to respect honorable differences among us, learn to disagree without resorting to personal threats, and recognize that we are a party large enough to accommodate something short of strict unanimity on the issues of the day, |
| Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'. |
| Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'. |
| take the surplus and put it into Social Security and pay down the debt. We ought to pay down the debt, and we also ought to make Social Security solvent. |
| Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. |
| The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them. |
| The decisions have to be made at the highest level, |
| The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America. |
| The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on. |
| The vice president is again raising the specter of Social Security to frighten senior citizens, ... Instead of frightening seniors, we need to sit down and realize that we need to find a source of money to make Social Security solvent and then allow Americans to be able to invest their savings in their retirement accounts. |
| Theoretically, I obviously wouldn't like it. |
| They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it -- at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges. |
| Things have not gone as we had planned or expected nor as we were told by you, Gen. Myers, |
| This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States." [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon] |
| War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. |
| War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. |
| Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded. |
| We are Americans first, Americans last, Americans always, ... Let us argue our differences. But remember we are not enemies, but comrades in a war against a real enemy. |
| We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves. |
| We ought to have sustained air operations to destroy those capabilities, including the palaces, but also to really hit the Republican Guard, which is also the basis of his support, ... This Week with Sam and Cokie. |
| [Both men said Tuesday that the tough GOP primary had not affected their relationship.] To look back with any anger or any rancor would be a mistake for me and for Governor Bush, ... I hold no rancor. |
