Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.

Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.

If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.

I support the president 100 percent - when he's right.

All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.

I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.

The American people fear there is some gouging going on.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.

We have got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive.

A lot of my friends tried to talk me out of running.

Dodd-Frank greatly expanded the regulatory reach of the Federal Reserve. It did not, however, examine whether it was correctly structured to account for these new and expansive powers. Therefore, the Committee will be examining the appropriateness of the Fed's current structure in a post Dodd-Frank world.

Even some of my Republican friends say I have a populist, progressive streak. I am not a doctrinaire, anti-government person.

Federal Reserve officials have stressed the importance of the Fed's independence. But such independence does not mean that it is immune from Congressional oversight.

I believe that we have to have a new regulatory regime for our financial system.

I do believe that we should keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, would-be terrorists, and a lot of other people.

I don't believe $25 billion or $50 billion or $100 billion is going to change the way Detroit does business.

I don't want Congress setting monetary policy.

I feel good. I've got a lot of energy. I've got a lot of purpose, too.

I think the GOP, the Grand Old Party, the Republicans, they will regroup.

I've been a stalwart for national security.

If things go right, maybe I'll chair the Appropriations Committee.

John McCain has not been president of the United States. He ran. He ran a spirited campaign. We lost. I hated to see us lose, but there were a lot of things working against us.

We have a unique relationship with the U.K., Great Britain. Tony Blair has been a steadfast spokesman for Britain, and also for the joint interests that we share.

We need to eradicate these terrorist groups, wherever they are. If we failed to do it, we are just waiting for the next.

We've got a second amendment right. I think some people forget that.

You can't go to Washington as a congressman and a senator and expect to make a difference all at once. You have to earn your way.

Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Delay is preferable to error.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

You may delay, but time will not.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States.

I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.