Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe.

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport.

But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

We face a wide array of threats, which means we have to have a wide array of capabilities.

In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better.

I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is the largest external operation force within al Qaeda.

We're dealing with an enemy now, ISIS, that has a very sophisticated social media program.

You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

I'm thinking of trying to talk Jonathan Toews into running for Congress. We could use him.

I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry.

Wisconsin is very proud of the career and technical college system that we have back home.

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.

I cannot and will not raise money on Benghazi. I also advise my colleagues to follow suit.

Russia has demonstrated it is not committed to genuine partnership with the United States.

ISIS takes a long-term approach to its apocalyptic war with West - we have to do the same.

When Fidel Castro is gone, there will be hope for Cuba. There will be opportunity for Cuba.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general.

Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.

I ran for Congress because I want to help change the way we do business in Washington, D.C.

Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.

Countries make policies for themselves. And Donald Trump wants to make - that`s his policy.

Publicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea.

Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I've ever had.

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.

The Russians hacked into the Illinois State Board of Elections. They got into the database.

I think you see a clear pattern of people in the Trump campaign coordinating with Russians.

Cyprus has a reputation as a laundromat for the Russians who are trying to avoid sanctions.

In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States.

[The Democrats'] vision for the future: socialized medicine and Washington-run health care.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

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