You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.
The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It’s just that simple.
When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country’s interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.
People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.
The taxpayers deserve accountability.
Is there decency left in American politics?
Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.
If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.
I don’t feel responsible for things I didn’t vote for.
All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.
One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.
This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.
I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.
This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.
Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.
We need leadership, and we need it now.
As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.
I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.
I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.