It would be a serious mistake to transfer extremely valuable spectrum from public uses to private commercial purposes without compensating the American taxpayer for use of that spectrum.

Absolutely going to hold the line on taxes.

I don't like raising taxes and never will.

I feel good that it's behind us, but I can't be euphoric about every provision in this bill.

The economy is sluggish, and there's no question about that.

No, I want everybody to be right with me on everything I do.

I am pleased that the Congress also has passed historic Clean Air Act amendments.

Since March 12, 1990, the Office of Foreign Assets Control ('FAC') has released $39 million of the remaining $169.7 million blocked to the control of the Government of Panama.

On his travels he's heard it from those who were side by side with us in the Gulf.

I simply want to wish each and every one of you the very best.

Republicans believe that power should be in the hands of people, not in the Government in Washington, DC.

I'm sure you've been watching the news about these budget negotiations with Congress.

We are united in the opposition to the tax-and-spend policies of the Democrats.

We need her. She is outstanding.

Partisanship stops at the water's edge.

The voters are fed up.

I feel we've got a winner out there.

For the sake of the Nation, we have to reduce the deficit now.

The budget, regrettably, isn't the only thing we've waited for.

Hawaii cries insistently to a divided world that all our differences of race and origin are less than the grand and indestructible unity of our common brotherhood.

I believe the American people do deserve clean air.

We are not going to fail in our mission halfway around the world.

In short, we do want to build a better America.

America needs that spirit of aloha in the United States Senate.

I am determined to do my level best, in a spirit of compromise and in a spirit of outreach, to get an agreement that puts a stop to this congressional spending binge.