If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.

After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

We're not gonna misread our mandate.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.

It's time Congress got its priorities straight.

Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.

The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.

More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.

If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.

The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.

A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

The border is way more porous than it should be and I think wed be open to discussing anything that enhances border security.

The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.

The greatest way to ensure stability in our laws is to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to participate in some way in the passage.

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.

Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.

The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and to look at how Asean can maintain its leading role in regional and international cooperation.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

I think there has been a lack of full cooperation from too many people in the Muslim community.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.

With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.