We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

Traditionally people are on the side of the government all the time.

Hardly anyone in the world is an American

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.

Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.

I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.