“Everyone across America is tightening their belts. The only place it hasn’t happened is D.C.”

Don’t try to be somebody you’re not because it doesn’t work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they’re involved in public office, it’s just not going to work.

My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot.

Barack Obama is the worst president in history.Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

Just be yourself and stay true to your core values.

Spending when the math’s not there and the numbers aren’t there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it’s filled with IOUs because the government’s been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.

It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.

Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

From what we’ve heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They’re positive. They’re good. He thinks he’s got a good vision for America.

. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It’s tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.