I would like people to understand the rationale for my embryonic stem cell research decision and how the process became distorted over time.

I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race.

I think you can grow your economy and at the same time do a better job of harnessing greenhouse gases. I don't think you can expect any American leader to wreck the economy, nor as an ally and a friend of America and a trading partner of America should you want us to wreck our economy.

Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that we-technology can be developed so we can have zero-emissions coal-fired electricity plants.

We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.