“Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.”

I am troubled… that someone would sell a book, trading on their former service as a government insider with access to our nation’s most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on September 11, 2001.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

In May, my staff worked with outside counsel and with the Senate ethics committee staff to draft a written communication to the trustees.

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

In the wake of this disaster, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida should know that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need,.

As a matter of principle, we believe all Americans deserve affordable, available, and reliable quality health care.

September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.

As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions.

After obtaining pre-approval by mid-June from the Senate ethics committee, I issued a letter directing my trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock in my family’s trust.

As a matter of principle, we believe patients should be able to see the right doctor at the right time. As a matter of principle, we believe nothing should interfere with that doctor-patient relationship.

Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world.

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

It is very important that the president thematically shows where we’re going in terms of the vision and an agenda.

The United States has put more money on HIV, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis than any country in the world and it’s having an impact real quick.

The number one killer of children in Rwanda is malaria. Since the United States of America stood up and working with Rwandans, we have been able to cut those deaths by two-thirds.

You can’t repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.