George Lemieux: “The last thing we want is to build half of a high-speed rail corridor.”

The time of mutual assured destruction is over. Whether we admit it or not, the world has accepted a nuclear North Korea, and I fear we are prepared to accept a nuclear Iran.

We can't say we're going to just freeze spending. We have to cut spending.

Mr. President, when this oil washes up on shore, when we have failed to respond to the offers of assistance from foreign countries, it's not just oil that's washing up on shore. It's failure.

Just as oil and water do not mix, neither do tar balls and tourism.