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I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
Democrats would use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his [Charles Pickering] nomination is rejected again this year.
We [The United States] should be prepared to launch a pre-emption strike against Iran to eliminate their nuclear capability.
Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year.
As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, lets use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
If you’re a responsible business, you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.
I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.
Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.
Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.
I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.
While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...
For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.
Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.
We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.
Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.
I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.
Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.
The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.
We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.
I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything.
Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?
By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.
The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.
Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.
Judge [Samuel] Alito, I'll tell you the same thing I told John Roberts. I expect you to adhere to the Code of Judicial Conduct.
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation.
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.
I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.
Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.
While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.
A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.
Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.
Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.
I have proudly spent several periods in government, but I'm not a career politician. I come from a family of 'citizen soldiers.'
A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow