Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

I am a moonbeam free to go whenever I choose.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let 's just sit down and begin to talk peace."

The oldest and most important currency is debt.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.

Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.

We've got to get in to get out.

Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.

I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.