"It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet."
"Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted."
"As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'."
"Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care."
"We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq."
"We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad."
"I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about."
"None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act."
"This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil."
"Let's create a legal system that can work."
"Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying."
"Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something."
"I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda."
"What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves."
"Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well."
"I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy."
"I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins."
"At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman."
"I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy."
"The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job."
"I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family."
"I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues."
"I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal."
"I believe in the sanctity of marriage."
"I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up."
