The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.

The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.

I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.

I would have put more emphasis on bringing working class people together to fight for a government that works for all of us.

Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.

I dont believe you need high capacity magazines to go hunt. If you have to use 100 rounds to shoot a deer, youre in trouble.

Donald Trump has a lot of supporters with a deep hatred of Hillary Clinton and access to incredibly powerful lethal weapons.

It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president.

I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum.

Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.

There's no reason to think a Guantanamo detainee is any more likely to escape from Supermax than any other federal prisoner.

You'll never get progress in Washington until you have a majority, bipartisan majority, that really wants to solve problems.

The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.

[Donald] Trump is where the Republicans are, and if you're going to be a Republican leader you should be supportive of that.

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.

Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.

The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, although they're not officially debt of the federal government, they are off-balance-sheet debt.

Instead of marginalizing women, Congress must get to work on policies that can foster job creation and fuel economic growth.

It's a heavy feeling being in Washington. There are so many important issues at risk. You're in a fighting stance every day.

Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

You know, now that I come to think of it, the blizzard may be the best thing to happen to the American economy in 12 months.

Are you aware that people who oppose Vladimir Putin wind up dead all over the world, poisoned, shot in the back of the head?

When you say I want to talk about racial justice, that`s not the same as saying I want to do something about racial justice.

Ultimately, my proposal isn't intended to increase or decrease the amount of federal spending spent on antipoverty programs.

We should all be neo-abolitionists here to make sure that there is no right in America to enslave others using the Internet.

Only in a nation like ours could someone like me, the scrappy son of a simple carpenter, grow up to become a simple senator.

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.

I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.

Senators who once supported common-sense legislation have gone silent as stones under the threat of the polluters' spending.

Clinton is someone who understands trade, who understands we want more of it, but we want it under a different set of rules.

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

Brexit is the people of Britain who are fed up with the European Union dominating their lives, and they want accountability.

ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception.

About 65 percent of Republicans believe that Donald Trump is not the best candidate to go head to head with Hillary Clinton.

The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it.

I predict after this whole thing is over, what we'll remember about the failed candidacy of Donald Trump is, 'You're fired.'

It is easy to see how after receiving this adoration for a term or two most members become convinced they are indispensable.

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