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Now That We Have The Line-item Veto There Is No Excuse For Congress To Put Pork In And No Reason For The President Not To Line-item Veto It Out.

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Now That We Have The Line-item Veto There Is No Excuse For Congress To Put Pork In And No Reason For The President Not To Line-item Veto It Out.

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The Problem Is That Most Members Of Congress Don’t Pay Attention To What’s Going On.

America Has The Strongest, Best-trained, Best-led Military Force In The World, And We Have Failed Them. Our Military Today Is Struggling In Virtually Every Category That Measures Preparedness.

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You Can Disagree With Someone On Issues, But You Should Never Get Personal. Joe Biden Has Never Gotten Personal, To My Knowledge, With A Fellow Senator.

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Some Of Us Are More Favorably Disposed Than Others.

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If The United States Had Not Intervened In Afghanistan, Then Obviously, We Would Have Then Allowed The Attacks Of 9/11 To Go Unanswered. I Don't Think Most Of Americans Wanted That To Happen.

The Iranians Have A Lousy Government, So Therefore Their Economy Is Lousy, Even Though They Have Significant Oil Revenues. So I Am Convinced That Together, We Can, With The French, With The British, With The Germans And Other Countries, Democracies Around The World, We Can Affect Iranian Behavior. But Have No Doubt, But Have No Doubt That The Iranians Continue On The Path To The Acquisition Of A Nuclear Weapon. And It Is A Threat Not Only In This Region But Around The World.

Democrats Proposing Failure In Iraq By Withdrawing.

Does It Make All The Difference In The World? No. But There's A Great Deal Of Symbolism Associated With Whether We're Going To Add $24 Billion To The Debt In Unwanted And Unnecessary Pork-barrel Projects.

It's Very Clear That Vladimir Putin Has Decided That He Will Eliminate His Opponents And Anyone Who Stands Up For Democracy And Freedom. And He Does So With Relative Impunity.

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Russia Is A Gas Station Masquerading As A Country.

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My Preference Would Be To Remain In The Senate, ... But You Can't Say I Would Refuse To Serve In One Of Those (cabinet) Capacities. It's Not The Same As Vice President.

I Watch Sports All The Time. My Wife Cindy Says I Would Watch The Thumb-suckers Play The Bed-wetters. I Watch All Sports And I Enjoy All Sports. It's Been Great Fun In My Life And A Great Diversion.

I'm Going To Be Honest: I Know A Lot Less About Economics Than I Do About Military And Foreign Policy Issues. I Still Need To Be Educated.

The 'main Street' Retailers ... See Customers Come To The Store To Locate Items ... Only To Leave And Order The Items Over The Internet Just To Escape The Sales Tax.

The Russians Are Succeeding In Continuing Their Dismemberment Of Ukraine, They're Succeeding In Exerting Enormous Influence In The Middle East, Which They Never Had Before. They Are Succeeding - They Have Succeeded In Interfering With Our Election, And We Know That They Continue That In The French Elections And Other Elections. And So Far They Have Paid A Little Or No Penalty For All Of This Misbehavior.

The Role Of The Vice President Is To Break Ties In The Senate And Inquire Daily Into The Health Of The President.

It's Pretty Clear We Have Enough Guard People In The United States, But Are They Capable Of Handling Our Oversees Commitments As Well? We Need To Figure Out How That Impacts Our Ability In Iraq.

Courage Is The Enforcing Virtue, The One That Makes Possible All The Other Virtues Common To Exceptional Leaders: Honesty, Integrity, Confidence, Compassion And Humility

That Does Not Mean We Won't Experience The Tragedy Of The Loss Of Some American Lives. We Will Have An Opportunity To Instill A Democracy In Iraq Which Will Be An Example And Perhaps Force Other Nations In That Region To Move In The Same Direction.

I Think It's A Very Legitimate Aspect Of American Life To Criticize And To Disagree And To Debate. But I Want To Say I Think It's A Lie To Say That The President Lied To The American People. I Sat On The Robb-silverman Commission. I Saw Many, Many Analysts That Came Before That Committee. I Asked Every One Of Them-i Said, 'did-were You Ever Pressured Politically Or Any Other Way To Change Your Analysis Of The Situation As You Saw?' Every One Of Them Said No.

There Is No Confidence In The Arab World Today In The United States Of America.

Our Political Differences, Now Matter How Sharply They Are Debated, Are Really Quite Narrow In Comparison To The Remarkably Durable National Consensus On Our Founding Convictions.

Political Differences

Since When Is The Intelligence Agency Supposed To Be An Air Force Of Drones That Goes Around Killing People? I Believe That It's A Job For The Department Of Defense.

The Facts Are Facts And Records Are Records.

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Iran Launches Monkey Into Space

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We Make The Future Better Than The Past. We Don't Hide From History. We Make History.

Glory Belongs To The Act Of Being Constant To Something Greater Than Yourself, To A Cause, To Your Principles, To The People On Whom You Rely And Who Rely On You In Return.

Reducing Military Presence Has Never In History Won A War.

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Unfortunately, Governor Bush Is A Pat Robertson Republican Who Will Lose To Al Gore.

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God May Have Mercy, But We Won't.

I Will Not Agree To Have This Bill [to Repeal Dadt ] Go Forward, Because Our Economy Is In The Tank.

I Think I Am Becoming Incapable Of Being Too Surprised. But It Just Makes Me Sad And Sick.

So When Someone, A Veteran Stands Up And Say, "here Are The Facts On The Va." He [donald Trump] Says, "no, Your Facts Are Wrong." Turns Out Her Facts Are Right And His Facts Are Wrong.

I Hate The Gooks. I Will Hate Them As Long As I Live.

The Issue Of Economics Is Not Something I've Understood As Well As I Should. I've Got Greenspan's Book.

As Part Of My Misspent Youth, I Spent Too Much Time In The Sun, And Every Few Months, I Have To Go And Have Some Basal Cell Removed From My Old Craggy Features.

I Believe In Evolution. But I Also Believe, When I Hike The Grand Canyon And See It At Sunset, That The Hand Of God Is There Also.

But We Have A War Of Ideals And Ideas, And That Is To Sell Democracy.

The Point To Me Is Not What Donald Trump Is Saying Because We Keep Reacting To Just Things He Says In His Tweets. What He Is Doing Is Important.

Free Trade With Colombia Is Something That's A No-brainer.

As Long As Americans Are Not Being Injured Or Harmed Or Wounded Or Killed, It's Fine With Me And I Hope It Would Be Fine With You If We Maintain A Presence In A Very Volatile Part Of The World Where Al Qaeda Is Training, Recruiting, Equipping And Motivating People Every Single Day.

Russia Is A Gas Station Masquerading As A Country. It's Kleptocracy, It's Corruption, It's A Nation That's Really Only Dependent Upon Oil And Gas For Their Economy.

I Think We Also Ought To Prepare The American Public, By Way Of Informing Them, That Saddam Hussein Has These Weapons, Continues To Attempt To Improve Their Capability, And Would Not Be Reluctant To Export Them To Other Countries. So He Presents A Clear And Present Danger.

It Is Because I Owe America More Than She Has Ever Owed Me That I Am A Candidate For President To The United States.

The Day That The Leadership Of The Military Comes To Me And Says, "senator, We Ought To Change The Policy," Then I Think We Ought To Consider Seriously Changing It.

Cindy And I Are Adoptive Parents. We Know What A Treasure And Joy It Is To Have An Adopted Child In Our Lives.

The Smartest Person In The United States Senate, And He Knows It, Is John Sununu. Thank God He Had His Mother's Temperament.

Our Nation Has Both An Obligation And Self-interest In Facing Head-on The Serious Environmental, Economic And National Security Threat Posed By Global Warming.

I Don't Use Coarse Language Very Often. I Have A Larger Vocabulary Than That.

Why The Hell Do I Have To Keep Updating My Apps On My Iphone All The Time And Why You Don't Fix That?

Thank God For Our Form Of Government. The Media Won't Let There Be Any Cover-up.

I Am The Son And Grandson Of Navy Admirals, And I Was Born Into America's Service. It Wasn't Until I Was Deprived Of Her Company That I Fell In Love With America.

There Is No Moral Equivalent Between That Butcher And Thug And Kgb Colonel Vladimir Putin And The United States Of America, The Country That Ronald Reagan Used To Call A Shining City On A Hill.

It Seems To Me That President Carter Has Earned His Place As If Not The Worst President In History, The Worst President Of The 20th Century.

I Was Concerned About A Couple Of Steps That The Russian Government Took In The Last Several Days. One Was Reducing The Energy Supplies To Czechoslovakia.

There's Two Ways Of Working In Washington, ... One Is To Go Along And Get Along. The Other Is To Stand Up For What You Believe In.

It's Not Social Issues I Care About.

It's A Tough Path To Citizenship. You've Got To Pay Back Taxes. You've Got To Learn English. You've Got To Have A Clear Record. You've Got To Get To The Back Of The Line Behind Other People Who Have Come Here Legally Or Even Waiting Legally.

Major League Baseball Players And Owners Should Meet Immediately To Enact The Standards That Apply To The Minor Leagues, And If They Don't, I Will Have To Introduce Legislation That Says Professional Sports Will Have Minimum Standards For Testing. I'll Give Them Until January, And Then I'll Introduce Legislation.

I Cannot In Good Conscience Vote In Favor Of Tax Cuts, Irrespective Of Their Size, Or To Which Segment Of The Population They Are Targeted. Nor Can I Support Any Spending Increases That Are Not Related To Improving Our Nation's Defense From The Obvious And Serious Threats Facing Us Today.

We Need More Competitive Races, ... We Need The Voice Of Moderation.

I Am Proud To Be A Conservative ... But I Am Also Proud Throughout My Life To Have Attracted The Support And The Love And Affection Of People From All Over America And All Parts Of It.

Stocks Have Tanked. Shouldn't You Have Asked For That Money Back?

Europeans Are Greater Than They Have Been Since Any Time Since The End Of The Cold War.

I Am Fully Prepared To Be Commander In Chief... I Don't Need On-the-job Training.

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