Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.
Investments - particularly those that involve the change of control of a company - only work when they work well for all parties involved.
Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of poverty with the creation of robust middle classes in India and China, which is an enormously positive development for those countries that also creates opportunities for the rest of the world.
My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.
Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different sets of situations and I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a news conference about it. I'm going to put it in a safe and keep it there! Does that answer your question?
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.
The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.
I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.
Pakistan always seems to have a lot of political complexities and political challenges. But Pakistan is important for a number of reasons. Primarily, it is a nuclear power. And if, in fact, al Qaeda and Taliban, which are in Pakistan and causing a lot of tragedies and deaths in Pakistan - if they would ever somehow have real influence and control of that government, then we [world] really have a problem.
I'd like to get into the National Guard.
It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.
Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief.
I have a very strong record on the Environment in the United States Senate.
The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.
I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
The message was that... fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children.
We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.
I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring. But I did very well.
I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.
I work with the president almost on a daily basis. I was with him until 6:30 last night. I'll be with him Thursday morning. We talk every day.
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
