We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.
Won’t it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?
Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism. We have aided their progress and I am proud of it.
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.
I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.
I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.
Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.
Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built.
A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.
It is a $270 billion cut in medicare.
I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.
When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we’d hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too.
I believe that this country’s policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.
We’re going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free – free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.
Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
Character doesn’t matter.
When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don’t just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.
Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it’s responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax cuts will not undermine our economy. They will speed economic growth.