Great Throughts Treasury

"We have to make sure that a catastrophe of nature does not become a catastrophe of debt for our children and grandchildren."

"There's a lot of miles between the saying and the doing here on Capitol Hill"

"Without the promise of confidentiality, many important conduits of information about government activity would be shut down, ... Nothing less than the public's right to know is at stake."

"It is not acceptable to take a catastrophe of nature and turn it into a catastrophe of debt,"

"Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom."

"A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect."

"All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it."

"And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative."

"Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues."

"As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press."

"As we begin this debate, I am confident that we will hear the supporters of this bill argue in the name of Ronald Reagan that this research is consistent with his long-held views about the sanctity of life."

"Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people."

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."

"For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending."

"By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security."

"Human cloning is coming."

"I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill."

"I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it."

"I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy."

"In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists."

"In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent."

"I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different."

"I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem."

"It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent."

"It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals."

"It?s time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts."

"It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did."

"It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth."

"It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts."

"The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home."

"My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home."

"It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again."

"More than anything else, let me be clear ? we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That?s what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to."

"Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny."

"Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years."

"Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh."

"The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat."

"The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism."

"The American people know what?s necessary to get this economy moving again. It?s fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms."

"We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation."

"We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research."

"Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way."

"You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt."

"While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner."

"Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues."

"To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles."

"You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we?re looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed."

"The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect."

"What I want the Congress of the United States to do, and frankly what I would like to see the President of the United States of America do, is speak a word of support to the people of Iran."