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

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

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

Our system of checks and balances requires policymakers to have accurate information about government actions.

I think for all of us who call East St. Louis part of our heritage, we want to make a better day for the city.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.

Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.

Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

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

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

What I am delivering to Alaska is a future that holds hope and opportunity for jobs, for people in this state.

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president.

I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?

There are certain things that should remain forever pristine in your memory, and that's how I look at Hanauma.

Our ability to compete for the jobs of tomorrow depends, above all, on our capacity to educate children today.

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

I know companies in Cleveland that could make the suits and the other things that Donald Trump has outsourced.

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

I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.

What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.

I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true.

I work on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees to keep us safe at home and strong in the world.

I can't see the country electing another Bush, i love Jeb Bush - I think he's a nice guy. I just can't see it.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.

When you look back at your own story, you may find out that not every 't' was crossed and every 'i' was dotted.

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

The attorney general should be a watchdog for the rule of law, not a lapdog for the president - simple as that.

My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

It's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.

I think the leaders in all parties tend to adjust to reality. They just have to or they won't remain in office.

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos, there will be genocide, and they will follow us home.

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.

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