Our strength and our security depends obviously on having a strong military, having a strong economy, and also on our ability to have willing allies and nations join us in common global efforts, the principal one today being terrorism.

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

American workers are first rate.

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.

I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.