This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.

As we watch the world today, sometimes it seems that we`re at the mercy of events instead of shaping events. And a strong America`s essential to shape events, and a strong America, by the way, depends on a strong military.

It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.

Ending illegal immigration only strengthens legal immigration.

Supreme Court had said feds should stay out of abortion.

I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.

It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a period technically dubbed 'peacetime,' they restored American pride in the wake of Vietnam and helped bring a successful end to the Cold War. The service of these men and women was not without cost. There are countless stories of soldiers who served with great distinction only to be denied veteran status after returning home. Every man and woman who volunteered to serve this country should be treated with the same degree of respect, gratitude and dignity.