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When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.
Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.
Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.
Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.
We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.
I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.
Against the advice of my wife, I endorsed Arlen Specter. I should have listened to my wife.
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.
A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.
[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.
It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.
Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.
We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.
For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth.
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.
It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.
No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.
War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.
The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure.
I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.
I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.
Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.
I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
The internet is a series of tubes, and all of those tubes are filled with Joe Francis' semen.
The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.
As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.