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Some Urge We Do Nothing Because We Can't Be Certain How Bad The (climate) Problem Might Become Or They Presume The Worst Effects Are Most Likely To Occur In Our Grandchildren's Lifetime. I'm A Proud Conservative, And I Reject That Kind Of Live-for-today, 'me Generation,' Attitude. It Is Unworthy Of Us And Incompatible With Our Reputation As Visionaries And Problem Solvers. Americans Have Never Feared Change. We Make Change Work For Us.

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Some Urge We Do Nothing Because We Can't Be Certain How Bad The (climate) Problem Might Become Or They Presume The Worst Effects Are Most Likely To Occur In Our Grandchildren's Lifetime. I'm A Proud Conservative, And I Reject That Kind Of Live-for-today, 'me Generation,' Attitude. It Is Unworthy Of Us And Incompatible With Our Reputation As Visionaries And Problem Solvers. Americans Have Never Feared Change. We Make Change Work For Us.

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What If There's Another Terrorist Attack? I Cringe At The Ideas Of Our Enemies Watching This, Knowing Much Like The President We Have Now. You Can Do Anything You Want, You Can Jerk Us Around, You Can Harass Our Naval Ships The Way Iran Is Doing Right Now, And We're Not Going To Do Anything. We're Not Going To React.

Senator Obama Voted Against Justice Breyer And Justice Roberts On The Grounds That They Didn't Meet His Ideological Standards. That's Not The Way We Should Judge These Nominees. Elections Have Consequences.

I Think That When You Look At The Great Politicians, The Two Greatest In My View Were George Washington And Abraham Lincoln, They Certainly Had Character Traits. You Also Know Abraham Lincoln Overcame Severe Depression Problems That He Had When He Was Younger, Which Gave Him The Strength And The Character Later On.

I Didn't Decide To Run For President To Start A National Crusade For The Political Reforms I Believed In, Or To Run A Campaign As If It Were Some Grand Act Of Patriotism. In Truth, I Wanted To Be President Because It Had Become My Ambition To Be President.

How Does It Make Sense To Remove An Option, To Tell Your Enemy Before You Go Into A Conflict, That You Will Not Exercise Whatever Options Are Necessary In Order To Achieve Victory?

Well, I Don't Think It Is Amnesty To Start With. Second Of All, What Do You Want To Do With Them? That Is The Question In Response. And Third Of All, It Is A Tough Path To Citizenship. You Have 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 Waiting Legally. So, I Just Reject That.

Only A Fool Or A Fraud Talks Tough Or Romantically About War.

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

War Is Wretched Beyond Description, And Only A Fool Or A Fraud Could Sentimentalize Its Cruel Reality.

I Don't Doubt The Sincerity Of My Democratic Friends. And They Should Not Doubt Ours.

Bin Laden’s Death And The Debate Over Torture.

Teachers Don't Need As Much As $140,000 A Year, ... But, Perhaps Some Senators Don't Need $140,000 A Year Either.

All Interested Parties Must Be Willing To Make Significant Sacrifices.

I Am Proud To Do So For I Know That By Supporting George W. Bush, I Serve My Country Well.

Conservatives Came To Office To Reduce The Size Of Government And Enlarge The Sphere Of Free And Private Initiative. But Lately We Have Increased Government In Order To Stay In Office. And, Soon, If We Don't Remember Why We Were Elected We Will Have Lost Our Office Along With Our Principles, And Leave A Mountain Of Debt That Our Children's Grandchildren Will Suffer From Long After We Have Departed This Earth. Because, My Friends, Hypocrisy Is The Most Obvious Of Sins, And The People Will Punish It.

Just By Coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy And I, In The Last Couple Of Days, After Several Months Of Negotiations, Have Reached An Agreement For An Immigration Proposal That We Will Be Putting Out Next Week, ... Our Proposal Is Along The Lines Of Make Them Pay A Fine Of A Couple Thousand Dollars, Make Them Work For Three Years, And After Three Years They Can Get In The Back Of The Line For A Green Card And Then Eventually Become Citizens.

Parents Are Not The All-knowing, Ideal People We Would Like You To Think We Are. We've Made Wrong Choices Before, And Will Again, Like Everyone Else, .. But Our Mistakes Are Not The Measure Of Our Love For You. You Are That Measure, And How Well You Are Prepared To Make Better Choices Than We Have Made.

There Is No Doubt In My Mind That Rudy Giuliani In The Senate Will Be A Leader For The People Of New York But Also For The People Of Arizona And The People All Over This Country.

For Decades We Have Been Living Lives Of Abundance, With Little Regard For Our Natural Resources Or Global Health. But We Are Now Facing Hard Choices In Our Energy Policy. Future Generations - My Children And Grandchildren, Along With Yours - Will Have To Live With The Decisions We Make Today. And So It Is Time For Us To Make Some Tough And - Hopefully - Smart Choices Regarding Our Energy Use And Production Before It Is Too Late.

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