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    who knows that such decisions have profound consequences.

    I don't have to tell you or anybody who's watching, our image in the world is suffering very badly, and one of the reasons for it is the perception that we abuse people that we take captive,

    We never even went there. We didn't spend a penny there.

    If only he hadn't spoken that one sentence in that one ad (Bush 'twists the truth like Clinton'), thus making him the author of an attack, and giving the Bush campaign permission to go nuclear against him.

    We're looking forward to the playoffs that are going to begin tomorrow, ... I'm sure the folks in New Hampshire aren't going to be affected much by the Iowa caucuses.


    Under my plan, 85 percent of America will pay no tax or have a flat tax at our lowest rate of 15 percent.

    I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.

    So far, I have not seen any significant concern that might lead to filibuster, but they're certainly reserving all of their options, and I think that's appropriate, ... Fox News Sunday.

    The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

    close, but whether we'll actually achieve it or not is not clear at this time.

    What I can do, really, is ask independents to look at him, and I hope that I have the credibility with them so they will examine his campaign,

    This will just remind us of the great time we had. But there's no anger. We've got to look forward.

    Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows,

    There's one big difference between me and the others -- I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I'll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation.

    We have 10 million for the Bering Sea crab disasters, 10 million for a Northeast fishery, seven for a Hawaii fishery and five for an Alaska sea life center, ... We've covered a good part of those senior members of the Appropriations Committee that have a coastline.

    All interested parties must be willing to make significant sacrifices,

    I was particularly pleased with his amendment that would require senators to pay the charter rate when traveling on private aircraft. Although his amendment was defeated, I congratulate Sen. Santorum for his hard work and leadership on the critical issue of lobbying reform.

    I have offered to do whatever I can, ... So I will do whatever the Bush campaign determines I can do most effectively.

    It's not in our interest to set up a situation where the president would veto, and I look forward to working with him on this issue, ... Meet the Press.

    We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived.

    It's hard for me to imagine the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sending that letter without at least consulting with the secretary of defense, ... It's well known that the secretary of defense wasn't enthusiastic about this loss of budget authority. Remember, most of our fiercest debates in Washington come down to who controls the money.

    First of all, I'd go to the international organizations and try to get some kind of sanctions and condemnation of it,

    I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States ... The vice president has two duties One is to break a tie in case of a tie vote in the United States Senate .. the other is to inquire daily as to the health of the president. Neither one of those are very challenging as compared with living a good part of time in the state of Arizona.

    what we lose when by official policy or by official negligence we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget . . . that which is our greatest strength that we are different and better than our enemies.

    While the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children's minds are being flooded by a tide of violence.

    Standing in front of signs that had the words Special interests ... healthy skepticism that has become widespread cynicism bordering on alienation.

    There are some who will say Congress has no business in this issue, ... But ... professional sports have not acted, and we have an obligation to our young people.

    I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to his colleagues in the Senate and the American people that he is absolutely opposed to any segregation in any form and racism in any form and discrimination in any form.

    I think the key phrase that the president used, which I think may have gotten a lot of attention all over the world, including Baghdad, is America's course will not be determined by the decision of others,

    I've been told that there is no room for this issue in Republican primaries, ... Well, I intend to make room for it. I will call for the reform of our political system everywhere I go in this campaign.

    We talked with Native Americans whose elders passed down oral history for thousands of years, and they said they had never seen this,

    We will do well in New York. We can win in New York. ... I am confident of victory,

    I see the hammer and sickle out here on the banners, ... I'm a bit concerned about both the policies and the attitudes and the increase in corruption here in this country. I'm a bit sorry to see it happen.

    I do not question the motives, nor do I know the motives for the president pardoning Mr. Rich, ... I do know that there's a terrible appearance of impropriety when a million dollars in soft money is given by the ex-wife of a fugitive from justice.

    The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.

    I'm very pleased that Sen. Gordon Smith has indicated he will not support a filibuster on campaign finance reform. I remain cautiously optimistic that we'll eventually prevail, but I won't be surprised by any efforts of the opponents to kill the bill.

    I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.

    The president has realized ... that AIDS is an epidemic. That we do have an obligation,

    We're the party of Abraham Lincoln, of inclusion, and not of exclusion, and I hope we can all work together and maintain a dialogue within our party as we help try to resolve this very difficult issue that affects American in such a grievous way,

    Thankfully it brings closure to the agony and uncertainty (that) many families have undergone for more than 25 years, as much as 30 years.

    There is a way out if people of good will will sit down and try to work toward a reasonable compromise, and yet I see the extremes having, on both sides, an enormous influence over this process, ... This Week.

    How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory

    with CIA leaks intended to harm the re-election campaign of the president of the United States, it is not only dysfunctional but a rogue organization.

    Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday they can grow up and be president.

    I asked not to be considered for vice president.

    As part of my misspent youth I spent too much time in the sun and every few months I have to go and have some basal cell removed from my own craggy features.

    I think it's going to be one of the biggest food fights on the floor of the Senate you've ever seen, unless we can come to some agreement ahead of time, because everybody's got their program,

    There comes a time when our nation's leader can no longer rely on briefing books and talking points, when the experts and the advisers have all weighed in, when the sum total of one's life becomes the foundation from which he or she makes the decisions th

    All this money washing around Washington and all of these contributions taint all of us.

    Some of us in Congress are so distrustful of the president that we feel obliged to damage the office in order to restrain the current occupant,


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