[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.

Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.

A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have already reached it. Peak Oil happened in 1970 in America, when over half of our oil that we gained from the soil was exhausted ... This is very disturbing, regardless of global warming.

In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.