Richard Lugar Quotations

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.

Very rarely does food enhance the conversation. If the food is really good, there'll be much less conversation because you'd be concentrating too much on the food.

Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had.

It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country.

would include the possibility that Secretary Bolton might be asked to come back for additional testimony.

We really have to be in negotiations; we have to be talking, ... I think the idea that we can handle one thing at a time is clearly not the case.

No one would have predicted in the 1980s that Americans and Russians would be working side-by-side on the ground in Russia destroying thousands of nuclear weapons systems, as well as biological and chemical weapons.

No one would have predicted in the 1980's that Americans and Russians would be working side-by-side on the ground in Russia destroying thousands of nuclear weapons systems, as well as biological and chemical weapons.

necessary to prevent imminent and actual harm to national security.

Huge stockpiles of weapons left over from previous times in Ukraine are dangerous for the people of this country as well as for other countries,

I think we need much more concentrated thinking.

Our central question today is what more can be done,

We should recognize that most Americans are focused on an exit strategy in Iraq. Even if withdrawal timelines are deemed unwise because they might provide a strategic advantage to the insurgency, the American people need to more fully understand the basis upon which our troops are likely to come home.

Finally, good prevails. But it makes you wonder who really is running the country.

Even if withdrawal timelines are deemed unwise because they might provide a strategic advantage to the insurgency, the American people need to more fully understand the basis upon which our troops are likely to come home.

Russians in the past had placed severe limitations on inspections at these storage sites, so this is a significant breakthrough,

This is a fundamental change and is a change probably in the tactics of our military, so that our people will be more mobile, more available at other places all over the earth.

As we pursue these issues, we should recognize that most Americans are focused on an exit strategy in Iraq,

It seems very clear to me that when the president returns home ... we better be prepared for the military strike,

It's unfortunate. It illustrates a dysfunctional state where the left and right hand don't know what either is doing and people are enforcing their whims of the day without deference to the world.

The larger hope of reaching a political settlement between all the major ethnic groups has not been realized.

It has broken a logjam of misunderstanding, ... This was an important breakthrough.

I conveyed to the Libyan leader the very best wishes of our president and he likewise conveyed and would like to have the visit of the secretary Rice and the visit of our president and I will convey those words back to George Bush ,

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.

As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.