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Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.
I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.
She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.
It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.
I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.
I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace.
It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.
Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.
They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.
If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.
Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.
I supported the efforts in Honduras to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua across to El Salvador.
We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.
Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.
I think the Democrats are actually worried he (Obama) may go to Indonesia and bow to more Muslims.
I think that our American people will welcome a Russian military force for peace-keeping purposes.
When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.
A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.
You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.
No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
I'd have to acknowledge that I have a weakness for the fairer sex - and I hope I never get over it.
I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.
I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.
'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.
This has been on the schedule for a long time. You don't get President Clinton on a 24-hour notice.
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.
Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.
The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.