I think the control needs to be back at the local level.

I am absolutely committed so that every young person in this country gets a quality education and can enjoy the fruits of their education, as I have.

We need to start looking at the full context, not picking and choosing the simple words that we want to utilize to support ourselves.

So when you go trampling on the Constitution, you get the full regards of the Constitution.

I would encourage each of you to consider the possibility that using a secular Federal Government to help advance religious principles... may in both the short run, as we are learning today, and in the long run be unwise.

I would put it to you that members of your congregations will still be similarly situated, and still be put in the same condition.

The Federal Government that is big enough to give to you all of the social justice that you pursue is also big enough to take from you all of the religious freedoms that you have.

I am disappointed in those who claim that the administration has an agenda: to increase abortions, sterilizations, and contraceptive use by Catholics.

I urge all sides to continue to work toward reaching the goal that I know most Americans share.

I want us to try to agree on goals and then try to work together to achieve those goals.

I take very seriously my constitutional responsibilities as well as my oath to office.

I don't want to balance our financial woes on the backs of our men and women in uniform.

Thank you for the opportunity to testify on allegations of misconduct and illegal discrimination and retaliation in the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS).

The perception of discrimination was widely there.

I do believe it is going to hollow out our forces and our military and it is going to cost more time, blood and treasure to reconstitute it.

progress does not have to wait for another election or a new administration.

Ronald Reagan signed off on something that correlated taxation on individual work and investment.

I look at 1986 as something that made a difference.