Politician Quotes

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.

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

All war aims for impunity.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

I am against government by crony.

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.