Politician Quotes

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.

I look forward to continuing to represent the people I'm currently serving, as well as the new communities that will be a part of this district in the future.

I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.

Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.