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I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.
I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.
We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.
After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.
I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.
We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.
In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.
In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.
Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.
I’m a capitalist, not a corporatist. I’m not someone who believes we should be bailing out corporations whether their auto industries, or banks.
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
We should have at least one new idea in the job training part of the platform. Otherwise, why don't we just take the 1964 platform and adopt it?
The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.
Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really isn't Democratic or Republican; it's American.
I'd asked girls out and they'd turn me down, and so finally it got to the place where you didn't want to be rejected. And so you just didn't ask.
The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.
No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.
The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.
We had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren't off on some suicide effort, certainly [with Friendship 7].
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.
If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.
It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top.
Politicians must pick sides regularly; every time they vote. So it's perhaps natural that they see the world as a battle between competing groups.
This is common sense. This is nature, and what we're trying to do is defy nature because a certain group of people want to be affirmed by society.
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.
And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.
Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.
The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.
Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.
We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and that is to shut down the gun shows.
A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.
It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.
I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.
We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.
A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd.