failure of leadership

People should not have to drive through the turnpike tunnels with their fingers crossed.

It just says we're going to return this issue back to the congress where it should have been to begin with. And it says these exact words, 'The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United…

The amendment doesn't ban anything. It does not amend the First Amendment. It does not prohibit speech. What it does is simple. It restores the power of the people's representatives to protect the flag from acts of physical desecration…

All states have pretty heavy veterans populations. And they're not going to forget it this time. They know that we are very close to this.

We will let the future take care of itself.

We'll let the future take care of itself.

OK. I want the FBI to get the information they need. I also want people to feel secure in conducting legal business in the country.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

In fact, you've hardly used that power so far.

So looking in libraries is not a relatively new thing.

I have a lot of difficulty seeing how this is going to change very much.

I guess he wants us to spend another 15 years trying to reform Medicare or trying to improve Medicare or trying to find a prescription drug benefit program. My gosh, we're putting up $400 billion over 10 years.

And we'll have legislation which conforms in the law. But we will at the same time initiate a constitutional amendment process.

Well, you know, science is able to point out where innocent people are on death row, and it's able to free innocent people.

When we remove the uncertainty, which is normally associated with a conviction, and we hold to a higher standard, a higher evidentiary standard, a matter that would involve the ultimate penalty.

In some cases, the crime is so awful and offends the society in such a way that considering the ultimate penalty is something that we want to be able to do.

We're going to rely on juries, of course, to determine the guilt or innocence of an individual. Then following the assessment of guilt or innocence, we would look and determine is there in this circumstance the kind of hard evidence which…