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"There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places."
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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

"One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority."

"Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures."

"There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade."

"This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy."

"But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits."

"I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises."

"The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent."

"Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double."

"The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable."
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