No matter the challenges ahead, I will never stop fighting for New Jersey and the values we share.
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
Tyrants and dictators have incited hatred against ethnic and religious minorities for centuries in order to consolidate power for themselves.
There's a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isn't always pretty.
We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.
There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.
If you got up this morning and had fruits for breakfast, it was probably picked by the bent back of an immigrant worker. If you slept in a hotel or motel of the nation, you probably had your room done by an immigrant worker.
By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.
We believe very passionately that an international approach is necessary to achieve some of these goals.
We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.
The United States' flag should only fly in Cuba when the island is free, when dissent is embraced, and when democracy is restored.
My mother was a seamstress, my father an itinerant carpenter.
This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.
We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.
Sure, banking bills are important, but they don't save lives.
Since he took power over half a century ago, Fidel Castro proved to be a brutal dictator who must always be remembered by his gross abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cubans, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship upon his own people.
During the 2005 Bush tax holiday, corporations didn't bring back the billions they stashed overseas to build new factories, increase wages, or create more jobs. The lion's share of that windfall went to CEO raises and stock buybacks for investors on Wall Street.
The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities for centuries.
There is one source of injustice in Cuba: The Castro regime. It is not United States policies and it is not the United States embargo.
