Politician Quotes

The campaign is over. It's time for the work of governing to begin.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.

It would be nice if we could clear up the nominations that are still out there, and there are a lot of them.

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.

If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at.

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves.

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.