Orrin Hatch
To be blunt, we need to remove the administrative barriers preventing legitimate research into medical marijuana, which is why I've decided to roll out the MEDS Act.Collection: Medical
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.Collection: Technology
It's high time to address research into medical marijuana. Our country has experimented with a variety of state solutions without properly delving into the weeds on the effectiveness, safety, dosing, administration, and quality of medical marijuana.Collection: Medical
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.Collection: Society
I come from the poor people, and I have been here working my whole stinkin' career for people who don't have a chance, and I really resent anybody that says I'm doing it for the rich. Give me a break.
Every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves.
Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.
The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.
We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
All I can say is God loves this country. We all know it. We wouldn't be where we are without him.
Nobody believes in the CHIP program more than I. I invented it. I was the one who wrote it.
I happen to think CHIP has done a terrific job for for people who really needed the help. I have taken the position around here my whole Senate service. I believe in helping those who cannot help themselves but would if they could.
I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won't help themselves, won't lift a finger, and expect the federal government to do everything.
Unfortunately, the liberal philosophy has created millions of people that way who believe everything they are or ever hope to be depends upon the federal government rather than the opportunities that this great country grants them.
I come from the lower middle class, originally. We didn't have anything.
If we worked together, we could pull this country out of every mess it is in.
I don't think we should be discriminating against anyone. Transgender people are people and deserve the best we can do for them.
I'm for helping the poor, always have been. And I don't think they should be bereft of healthcare.
Although I will miss serving you in the Senate, I look forward to spending more time with family, especially my sweet wife Elaine, whose unwavering love and support made all of this possible.
As your Senator, I always fought the fight for those who could not fight for themselves, and I believe the results speak for themselves.
I may be leaving the Senate, but the next chapter in my public service is just beginning.
I've talked to Mitt Romney. He's not going to run for this seat. I would be glad for him if he would.
I was the original little guy. This country gave me an opportunity. I want our tax system to do the same for others facing those same circumstances.
We have promised to do better, and no Republican concern should ever be enough to filibuster our own bill.
The Indians, they don't fully understand that a lot of the things that they currently take for granted on those lands, they won't be able to do if it's made clearly into a monument or a wilderness. Once you put a monument there, you do restrict a lot of things that could be done, and that includes use of the land... Just take my word for it.
Only in a nation like ours could someone like me, the scrappy son of a simple carpenter, grow up to become a simple senator.
If we could get the corporate tax rate down to, let's say, a maximum of 25 percent, it would be a sea change for this country. It would be great.
Maybe I should get back to the music-writing phase and write one on tax reform.
Oh, you wouldn't want to hear me sing.
The problem is that we have evil people who try to skirt the laws. And that's the problem.
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.Collection: Graduation
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying - that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.Collection: Gun
You know, we should not be giving cash to people who basically are just going to blow it on drugsand not take care of their own children.Collection: Children
The place where you got to get revenues has to come from the middle class. That's where the huge number of people that are there. So the system does need to be revamped [to tax the rich less and the middle class more.]Collection: Class
But I bear witness to Christ, too. I really know him to be the savior of the world. And that means more to me than almost anything else I know.Collection: Mean
In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal judges controlled or influenced by large corporations..., by large law firms...on more than one occasion(, and) ...by special interests...(some) ought to be thrown right off the bench because they are breaking every code of conduct.Collection: Dark
Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.Collection: Graduation
We must use a judicial, rather than a political, standard to evaluate [a nominee's] fitness for the Supreme Court. That standard must be based on the fundamental principle that judges interpret and apply but do not make law.Collection: Law
I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup.Collection: Sleep
We must remember that judicial nominees are constrained in what they may discuss and how they may discuss it.Collection: May
I wear a mezuzah just to remind me, just to make sure that there is never another holocaust anywhere.Collection: Holocaust
I'm not naive. Sometimes interpretation is more of an art than a science. There are those who would label interpretation absolutely anything a judge might do or, two, the text of a statute or the Constitution. But it seems to me there comes a point where a judge is using his own creativity and purpose and crosses the line between interpreting a text written by somebody else and in a sense creating something new.Collection: Art
In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes. Judges must settle legal disputes, not pursue agendas. Judges must interpret and apply the law, not make the law.Collection: Government
I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the online world controlled by those who have controlled the old, narrower ones, .. This is especially true if they achieve that control by leveraging their dominance in content or conduit space in an anticompetitive way to control the new, independent music services that are attempting to enhance the consumer's experience of music.Collection: Independent