The Russians are clearly a big adversary, and they demonstrated it by trying to mess around in our election.

I don't believe $25 billion or $50 billion or $100 billion is going to change the way Detroit does business.

It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.

You think defending this nation [americans] is expensive, try not defending it. That's a lot more expensive.

I will tell you, as president, I'm not going to be neutral. America will stand unapologetically with Israel.

I think data is incredibly powerful for understanding what people are thinking and for allocating resources.

I'm going to be a Republican who happens to be black - who will talk about issues that I'm passionate about.

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

I think we have to stop using the expression "alt-right." It's ridiculous. It's racist, fascist, nationalist.

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well

Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.

Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means.

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.

As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.

China is the one, the only one, that can control Kim Jong Un, this crazy, fat kid that's running North Korea.

I look forward to working with President Trump. I've worked with him many times in the past, but we disagree.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

The best deal that Barack Obama can get will not be the best deal to be had because he's weak and indecisive.

My view is, Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter, my view is I'm in Washington to try to work with people.

The House GOP continues to fail to address the real & serious issues thatthousands of families face each day.

The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.

We must remember that judicial nominees are constrained in what they may discuss and how they may discuss it.

We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge].

When I first came to the Senate, people in both parties went out of their way to have personal relationships.

It's human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That's bias.

The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

We cannot solve the deficit crisis on the back of our seniors. We need all Americans to pay their fair share.

I'm a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you're a terrible surgeon.

Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.

We need to focus on radical Islamic terrorists and we need to stop them before they carry out acts of terror.

We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.

The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.

Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

I am proud of Hillary Clinton because she has been and is a great history maker - in everything she has done.

Absolutely without firing a shot and instead of 175,000 American troops deployed overseas we now have 15,000.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

When I was a kid, school recess and physical education class were times for kids to run around and play games.

I have worked positively and successfully with Senator Sessions on issues like adoption and human trafficking.

I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.

If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."

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