It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

say positive stay positive

You don't need to know what you want. You only need to know what you don't want...

I know hedge-fund guys that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year and pay no tax. And I want to lower [tax] for the middle income. The middle class in this country has been decimated.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community.

It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.