Norm Coleman Quotes

"This is not about age,"

"I also continue to have concerns with the ability of the ... investigation to be thorough and conclusive. These audits do not answer even a fraction of the questions we have been asking or will be continuing to ask as our investigation moves ahead in the months to come."

"America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive."

"Kofi Annan is a fine man, but oversaw this incredible disaster of incredible magnitude and really should step down, if we care about the U.N. making reform and regaining credibility,"

"Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system."

"Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement,"

"You don't grow jobs, you don't grow the economy by raising taxes, ... The vice president thought that in 1984; he was wrong. He proposes now again what he calls rolling back some of the tax cut -- that's raising taxes."

"We completed two pieces of legislation in the highway and energy bill,"

"I have a high standard for the ethics of a Supreme Court justice, ... These were very questionable transactions, and the volume of work done on this was substantial -- in the millions of dollars."

"The U.S. pays 22 percent of the U.N.'s operating budget, the largest of any county, yet this should not be our only reason for pushing reform,"

"Laurie and I send our heartfelt prayers and sympathies to the family and friends of those lost and injured today in Red Lake and to all those touched by this tragedy."

"I'm open to that, ... I want to see where we're at, I want to see the cost-benefit. And so I think there are some areas that we can look at that maybe call for just stepping back a little bit, without taking away from commitments that we have already made."

"The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy."

"Galloway was anything but straight with the Congress. He was anything but straight with the American people."

"With the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina, we in Congress must use our economic growth in the country to now focus our attention on the Gulf Coast,"

"anything but straight with the Congress and the American people."

"The findings from this review, I hope, will provide Congress with the requisite information to make an informed decision regarding the national security implications of a Dubai-backed company owning and operating terminals at six U.S. ports."

"I think the president came to a clear understanding that he wasn't having a conversation with the American public, that he wasn't doing a good job of communicating with the public."

"I don't think this is mundane. I really think you're talking about the future of the Internet here,"

"I have made my intention very clear about what the secretary general should do for the good of the United Nations, ... incompetent administrator."