I don`t give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.
I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.
The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.
I don`t understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the `perfect,` when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.
One of the requirements I have used during my political career to decide whether we should do something is the issue of fairness.
Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.
It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.
I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.
Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.