
We're not going to be a country that takes millions of families and splits them apart.
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We're not going to be a country that takes millions of families and splits them apart.

There's a bill -- bill before the United States Senate, and it's Senate Bill 1086. It's passed the House of Representatives. It would set up a national child sex offender registry.

Senate Bill 1086, which has passed the House of Representatives twice, stuck in the Senate now, even though Bill Frist has been championing it and trying to get out, it would create up a national sex offender registry.

Write your two U.S. senators, e-mail them, and tell everybody you know, Bill Frist trying to get it out.

We make better laws. We make stiffer penalties.

It has nothing to do with partisan politics. We should have had a sex offender registry a long time ago.

I think we really, really have to be much more stringent about these background checks.

So he, the president of the United States, must tell the American people whether the Bush's -- President Bush's Oval Office is a place where the buck stops or the leaks start.

We can't declare victory, but we've moved a long ways down the road.

I'm not impressed. That's not -- I'm not going to now line up and say, oh, great, we've got a compromise and this is going to be the law.

I think we've reached a plea bargain with 11 million illegal aliens.

First thing I would say is that to describe this as a massive project is to under-describe how big this is and how significant it is and how much is involved.

Stop wasting money through FEMA. Start rebuilding the Gulf Coast, and give us money to restore our coast and build our levees, and then we can take care of the rest ourself.

Money taken from defense appropriations is -- still remains the highest number and still the most outrageous, because it diverts money from our national definition and the men and women who are -- who are serving and fighting and risking…

With Senator Ted Stevens' help, that state is pulling in $325 million for pet projects, including the Sea Otter Commission.

America's influence is very limited in Iraq. And it becomes more and more limited every day that goes by.

Every tactical, every strategic decision, right from the beginning, was a mistake, in my opinion.

If Rumsfeld were to go, it would be great for the White House. The world would come rallying to our side.