Richard Burr Quotes (31 Quotes)

They are the difference between (local) care and going for a lengthy drive, ... The challenge is how you maintain this to be the preferred health care provider for people in this area.

People in this community rejected that. We don't know why.

The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security.

The government is fully in charge of what happens, ... It ought to withdraw the execution date ... Its hands are not tied by anything Tim McVeigh wishes. He cannot make them kill him.

We as a state, because of human error, human frailty and no will to acknowledge our own frailty, are about to put to death man who is innocent. There is no greater miscarriage of justice, or travesty, or horror that a state can do to one of its citizens than this.

If we close our eyes to the social and political reality in which this crime occurred, we are fools.

It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies of energy so that our economy will not be dependent on foreign sources of energy.

Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

There is a challenge in North Carolina ... to some of the most rural areas trying to piece together a health care network,

a flip flop from 10 to 12 years ago.

If there are witnesses the government interviewed who suggest other people were involved or that Tim McVeigh was not involved, those are critical matters that would have to be investigated.

Where we are right now is having a considerable amount of evidence that the FBI is still withholding information. What has been turned over and what has not been turned over, together, create a tapestry of what we believe is a fraud on the court perpetrated by the government.

He (McVeigh) is deeply concerned and always has been about police overreaching, particularly federal police. And this is a case where we now know partly that the FBI has done a lot of covering up, delaying things, not wanting to give over things, and our research suggests that there's a whole lot more of that, and that they're not now being honest that they've given us everything. So we think it's very serious.

He is probably writing a number of letters to people, he maintains correspondence with many many people, who care about him, and I know that he is probably doing whatever one does psychologically and emotionally, to get ready for something like this.

Thirty-one states have a 211 presence, but until 100 percent of North Carolina and 100 percent of the country is involved, we haven't finished our job,

see through the stereotypes, which were made due to a lack of information.

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase.

I'd love to tell you that something is going to change tomorrow. But the reality is that it won't.

If Tim changed his mind, a petition could be filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, but that's not going to happen.

the person responsible for this crime is quite human. He is a man that embodies much of the best that we call human.

North Carolina has great representation in this administration. There are very talented people who have a lot to contribute,

These realities are clearly connected. There is violence, there is death and tremendous suffering. There is also a person at the center whom you will not be able to dismiss easily as a monster or a demon, who could be your brother, your son, your grandson.

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

We're not using Waco as an excuse. Waco is an event that happened that many people felt impassioned about. One of them was Tim McVeigh.

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans.

When it comes to universities, you won't find much in (campaign) contributions.

Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.

They usually pray for the governing body that they make the right decisions during the year.

Tim has had a struggle for a long time about what the end of his case would be, he felt all along that he would be put to death, and he vacillated between holding onto life, and letting go of life, over many months,