American Quotes

If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.

I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages who could end up completely dependent on the State, on the taxpayers - the American people.

As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.

Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care abo

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.

It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform.

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries.

We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.