It's my appeal for you to go back and look at the Federalist Papers and what are--I thought they had tremendous wisdom.

There's a disconnect. And it's seen--that's why we see the unrest, the tension that's out there in the electorate.

It's a real problem and it's what--you know, the fact is, is today our kids' future has been mortgaged.

I have to tell you, my hair has grayed a little bit the last 2 days because of your position, or lack of emphasis, on original intent.

I see something I've never seen in my 62 years of life: an absolute fear that we're losing it.

a lot of Americans are losing confidence because they're losing freedom, they're losing liberty.

It ought to go for individual freedom, individual liberty when it's--when it's on the narrow.

When we ignore the idea that the problem with illegal immigration isn't illegal immigration, it's the very fact that somebody is violating a law.

I think this has been one of the best.

They are stealing our intellectual property. They are stealing our future today.

Do we have the cooperation of China now in enforcement of our intellectual properties?

We do not have the cooperation of the Chinese government.

one of the reasons we are suffering a lack of jobs is tens of billions of dollars in productivity and jobs that should be in this country have been stolen by those that violate international intellectual property rights, chief of which is…

After passage of legislation that was trumpeted everywhere that from now on we were going to pay for additional spending, how could that happen?

I offered a rather lengthy amendment to this bill, not because I was trying to be cute, but I think the American people have got to hear from us on whether we are going to make some of the commonsense changes they would expect us to make…

It does not matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative or Independent, what your faith is, what your sexual orientation is: Out of many one. But if we are not careful, that one is going to fall based on what we do…

It happened because we waived the pay-go rules and we were outvoted. The pay-go rules are a farce. On May 27, $59 billion. With the new bill, another $50 billion. So 46 and 18 is 64, 74, 173, 193, 262, and now 50--that is $312 billion…

this is an amendment that will actually pay for everything we are doing. It does several things that the American people are demanding that we do. It discloses the true cost of borrowing and spending that we actually do in this body. It…

The first section of this amendment would require public disclosure of the amount of any new borrowing or spending approved by the Senate. In other words, it is about transparency. It is about letting the American people hold us…

I have listened to a great deal of the debate. I have heard it claimed that the EPA has scientists; that none of us are--except that is not accurate. There are about four or five trained scientists in the Senate, and I happen to be one of…

Dear Justice Sotomayor: I write to inquire about your decision to join Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion in the case of Graham v. Florida, No. 08-1224. In that case, a 5-4 majority of the Court ruled that sentencing a juvenile offender to…

To suggest to anyone that you can outlaw the use of foreign or international law is a sentiment that is based on a fundamental misunderstanding. What you would be asking American judges is to close their minds to good ideas. Nothing in the…

I am taken aback by the chairman's remarks. We now sit at $13 trillion worth of debt, we have 10 percent unemployment, we are 4 years away from being Greece, and we are going to do what we have always done. The reason we can freeze Federal…

The reduction is in overhead expense; it is not in labor. The definition the Senator is using is an across-the-board cut. That is not in this amendment at all. Does the chairman realize that the 5-percent reduction is in overhead--not…

I think what he talked about and what we are doing for our military in this bill is appropriate. It is something that has to be done. The only difference I would have with him is it is not an emergency. We all know it is not an emergency…