Jim Talent Quotes (29 Quotes)

I don't think the administration is where they need to be on that,

There are people walking around guilty of murder.

I'd like the chance to vote against this.

A major earthquake is no time for on-the-job training.

We need to function as a team, and I've always thought of Denny as the coach. I think he'll do that extremely effectively.

For me, the issue is service do our producers have convenient access to an FSA office That's the key to me. That's more important than any particular number of offices, ... Now, I am concerned about closing that many offices and the impact that will have on services.

I will come with independence and a fresh perspective.

cross the goal line and immediately offer the more than 5 million uninsured men, women, and children the opportunity for health care coverage.

It's unfortunate that the Senate is once again compelled to defend the Pledge of Allegiance because of the actions of a federal court.

Once caught in Superfund liability, it becomes much more difficult for a small business to attract capital, make investments and, therefore, grow and create jobs,

Working with Troop A, we were successful in getting the Senate to approve a plan that would protect our first responders and prevent highway fatalities, ... Dozens of police officers and fire fighters have lost their lives in accidents that should have been avoidable. Our initiative instructs the Department of Transportation to develop model legislation that will increase awareness and help save lives.

an effective and experienced voice for Missouri.

I was especially concerned because the office closure plan was issued with little or no consultation with our local offices and producers,

Sen. Feinstein and I worked closely with law enforcement on this bill because we wanted to address the problems they are facing on the ground. As a result, the legislation we passed is the toughest, most comprehensive anti-meth plan ever considered by the Congress.

Predators routinely represent themselves as someone else on the Internet to entice kids and our law enforcement should be allowed to represent themselves as someone else to protect kids, ... If a predator thinks he's meeting a minor and a law enforcement official shows up instead, federal law should allow for a conviction. Our legislation makes clear that law enforcement can patrol the Internet to help make it safer for our kids.

I am very disappointed in the commission's decision, not only in their failure to take these installations off the list, but because in their decisions they failed even to address the arguments Missouri made on a bipartisan basis, ... The St. Louis region, especially the men and women whose jobs are on the line, deserved better.

Despite the heroic efforts on the local level by our sheriffs and our chiefs and our deputies and our officers, this is not a challenge that we have, by and large, been succeeding at defeating. Now it sounds like it's different here in Kirksville, and that's great, but we have been losing ground in most places.

The home next door may be making methamphetamine. They make it in cars and vans.

It's a question of fairness, ... Small and family businesses deserve to have the same deduction for health-care costs as Fortune 500 companies.

One of the lessons of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is the clear need for local, state and federal responders to train together so they can be better prepared in the event of a disaster that requires widespread relief efforts,

American businesses are likely to spend at least 50 billion fixing Y2K computer glitches,

I think Iran needs to know that that option is there, and then we can hope that, you know, Security Council action or negotiations of some kind will work. So yeah, I think its essential that it be an option.

I think Roy probably came into Congress with more experience and accomplishments than the average congressman. It helped him hit the ground running in a lot of respects. He was never really a freshman.

It will very substantially reduce the number of local labs that are out there because it throttles the ability of the cooks to get the pseudoephedrine that they need to make the methamphetamine,

The 'Women's Business Center Amendments Act' will improve this important program and help the existing centers prosper and expand the opportunities for women-entrepreneurs to start and run their own companies,

With only 41 percent of the small businesses surveyed by the National Federation of Independent Businesses taking action or planning to take action to address their potential Y2K problems, something must be done to make becoming Y2K compliant more affordable.

I'm not holding my breath waiting for anything. We're going ahead with what we think we need to do on our end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

It is clear Women's Business Centers are a valuable asset to a growing sector of our economy,

The governors' plan is simply unacceptable. It misses the point of what real welfare reform is all about.