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I don't think there is any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder
This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.
The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone.
The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.
We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.
I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.
Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul had a message that was clear, it was principled, and it inspired. It was a vision for a future.
I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
I don't think that women should be punished as Donald Trump said they should, for making the decision to have an abortion.
We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.
The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff.
When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.
I congratulate Secretary [Hillary] Clinton on her victory. But, I think, for us, that is about as bad as it's going to get.
The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.
In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy.
When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her family.
Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but didn't.
The message to both parties should be right now that we need to find ways to work together to speak to the American public.
I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.
We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.
You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.
The notion that a company would give up on this nation to get a tax break isn't going to sit well with the American people.
I'll work with anyone - and I really do mean that - Democrat, Republican, independent, Libertarian, contrarian, vegetarian.
Occasionally [Donald Trump] says things that are too strong and upsets people, and I think he'll work to do better on that.
In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.
I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it.
The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people.
I do believe that our climate is changing. I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity.
We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.
A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.
I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.
I've always said that I'm open to changes in the relations between Cuba and the U.S., but that Cuba must make changes also.
The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.
I am as conservative as anyone running in this [president's] race, but I am a conservative that can win. That's a big deal.
My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family.
I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.
The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.
The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country.
Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.
When I'm really in the car, I'll cut on Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons.' That's probably the thing that's soothing to me the most.
Every week in the Senate, I give a speech telling my colleagues it is time to wake up to the reality of a changing climate.