
I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.
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I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.

What are rules to President Obama? Why do -- he is such a -- he is such an important man. I mean, he's the president of the United States, isn't he?

There's going to be a rematch. And we're going to -- we're going to go to New Hampshire and take -- and take him on. And you know we're going to -- we're going to run a campaign talking about my vision for this country.

I don't want to make a lot of people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.

If elected as president, Santorum says he would tell the Iranians to dismantle their nuclear facilities and make them available to inspectors. And if not, we will degrade those facilities through air strikes and make it very public that we…

We've raise more money in the last few days than we have in the last few months.

I'm asking you to not settle for someone who -- as your nominee, who might be able to win the election, but the election would be a Pyrrhic victory. In other words, we wouldn't have a candidate who is going to be elected president who will…

We are not looking for a chief executive officer for this country. We're looking for a commander in chief.

What I carried about with Terri Schiavo was to make sure that a judge looked fairly at the case.

I lost an election in the worst election year for Republicans in the history of our state.

I think what I'm telling you to do is to pick the more conservative of the candidates. And it's not to settle for something less than what you believe is the best. And yet sometimes the best isn't that great, but it's the best.

What I cared about with Terri Schiavo was to make sure that a judge looked fairly at the case.

Hey, John, you know what? I'm not so sure I'm not going to do that.

John, you know what, I'm not so sure that I'm not going to do that.

Mr. Speaker, I oppose motions regarding a conference because I do not support any of the costly proposals to extend the temporary payroll ``holiday,'' which destabilizes the Social Security Trust Fund and does nothing to enact the needed…

Mr. Speaker, families are doing holiday shopping, planning budgets. So are employers. Now we're being asked to accept a 2-month plan here, $166 per family, and a message of: Trust us and we'll come back. Congress needs to be doing more…

Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning in support of a long-term extension for an important middle class tax cut for American families that are struggling in these difficult economic times to make ends meet. We've been elected by the people to…

I thank the chair very much for yielding. I want to thank Representative Ros-Lehtinen and her staff for, really, being very dogged and persistent, and I want them to know how grateful I am. As people are for this bill, they should know…