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"A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record. In other news, a recent study shows that most criminals don't like getting shot at."
"There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill."
"For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that."
"While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass."
"But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now."
"If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution"
"And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC"
"Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites"
"China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations"
"I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that."
"And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different."
"But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid."
"I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan."
"So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world"
"We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack."
"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."
"I'm offering myself up. I'm saying that if I have the background, the capability and the concern to do this and I'm doing this for the right reasons... but I'm not particularly interested in running for president, but I think I'd make a good president. Nowadays, the process has become much more important than I think it used to be."
"Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued"
"Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people."
"If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible."