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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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"Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is."

"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 reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill."

"Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages."

"From watching the news one would think the Iraqis want us out of their country. But an overwhelming majority of Iraqis support our involvement there. Our freedom is contagious and we helped liberate them."

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

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

"Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority."

"But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did."

"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."

"African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college."

"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."
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