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"This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy."
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"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it."

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

"Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff."

"Major policy reform in the petroleum sector. Under the new Hydrocarbon Exploration Licensing Policy, there will be pricing and marketing freedom and a transparent revenue-sharing methodology. This will eliminate many layers of bureaucratic controls."

"Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure."

"But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics."

"For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights."
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"Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need."


"Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years."


"Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful."


"Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that."


"I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects."


"As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects."


"Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006."


"Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled."


"In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans."


"While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good."
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