American Quotes

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city.

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.

When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.

When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, 'we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating friendly, balancing budgets, cutting taxes, and, you know, using common sense. And if you get to be president, we are going to do more of that.'

What people really want to know from their doctor is, are you going to make me feel better? And what they really want to know from a president are, are you going to give me some security when it comes to my work? Because if I'm not working, my family is in trouble. And when I am working, the fact of

We've unveiled the most comprehensive reform budget people have seen in a generation.

This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and frankly, ladies and gentlemen, it is about the world. We've got to leave here and march, and make sure Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are president and vice president of the United St

The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.

So when they don't have certainty, they go the other way. In Ohio, we have given them certainty and things have been improved. But if we can get a Romney presidency, they are going to get much better.

Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.

Mitt Romney has a history of being a great job creator. Secondly, he was a great governor. He went from billions of dollars in the hole when he became governor to billions of dollars in surplus when he left. And he went from the loss of tens of thousands jobs when he became governor to the creation

It's not trickle down economics. The problem that the president has is that he's rudderless on the economy. I mean, he doesn't quite know what to do. It's a wake-up on Monday and try to figure it out. It takes time to turn a supertanker, so you need to know where you need to go.

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took were not always popular. But when you get yourself in public office, you must lead, you must do what's necessary.

I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes.

I think he should let me run Ohio. He should let us, the legislature, the members there, we should be running Ohio. The states are the laboratories out here, and I think the president needs to mind to the problems that he has in Washington.