American Quotes

Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef.

Food should be fun.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.

Well, our economy is very strong and growing. We have created 5.4 million new jobs in the last 3 years. Our unemployment rate is better than the average unemployment rate of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.

On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination.

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.

However one feels about the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 percent.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.

After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.