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Congress should pass legislation that mandates increased information sharing for any country that wants to participate in the Visa Waiver Program.
Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities
Women are beginning to feel that they are not fairly represented. As we say, 2% may be fine for fat in milk, but not for the United States Senate.
Our timing is right... The election results are still fresh in the minds of my Republican colleagues and they don't want to go through this again.
We've had enough with the gun traffickers and straw purchasers who buy guns out of state and sell them out of the trunks of their cars in Chicago.
All I can say is I was a lot more discreet as a candidate than I was in real life. Can I say that? Maybe it's indiscreet to talk about discretion.
There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.
Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government.
A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.
You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.
I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.
The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.
I do think we lost some of the focus on the attacks in San Bernardino and focused on a plan that isn't really a plan and is never going to happen.
I would say we must win the information war against ISIS. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it.
Whether the earth was created in seven days or seven actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries.
Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr provide an unparalleled ability for people to stay connected in new and unique ways.
The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law.
I love the Mexican people; I respect the Mexican leaders - but the leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our [American] leaders.
No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.
[Hillary Clinton] worked a tough negotiation with nations around the world to eliminate the Iranian nuclear weapons program without firing a shot.
The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there forever.
It’s happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there’s an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.
It's happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there's an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.
Women are focused on getting things done and bring fresh perspectives and innovative approaches to a political system that's crying out for change.
When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.
All I can say is if you check my record going back a long time, I have stood with those who are hurting. I have stood with those who have no money.
I've lost six different times. You can't say, 'Well, he lost, that's the end of the world.' You have to say, 'Okay, you lost, what did we do wrong?
For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class.
As Vermont's senator and a member of the Budget Committee, I will not support a plan to reduce the deficit that does not call for shared sacrifice.
I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.
I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform.
For Donald Trump to dismiss out of hand the intelligence community's fact gathering is, frankly - doesn't bode well for him protecting our country.
It is absolutely unacceptable to single out any political group - right, left, or center - and say we're going to target them. That is unthinkable.
The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.
I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment.
Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.
I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem.
When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.
Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand.
Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.
Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition.
The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first administration.
I'm here in Whoopi Goldberg's office trying to choose some shoes. We've seen [Marco] Rubio has those cool new boots and I don't want to be outdone.
William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.
This man [Barack Obama] does not have the interests of our country. That's not his agenda. His agenda is to bring us down to a third-world country.
Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
I can tell you is all nine of the people here [on debates] would make an infinitely better commander in chief than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
When Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator, she voted for some trade deals when they met her standards, but she voted against others when they didn't.