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My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
"What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home."
If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.
But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
Tonight I am going with my wife to a Democratic party, where we're going to...try to be happy.
My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property.
I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.
When I say things like 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman,' I'm called a bigot.
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.
A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.
I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.
The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.
The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.
We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.
I mean, accidents happen. You learn from them and you try to make sure they don't happen again.
I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one.
Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.
It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.
Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas
I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.
There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.
You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.
Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.
I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.
Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.
A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.
We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.
I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in.
I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.
Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.