29 Quotes by Jim Kolbe

It was useful and helpful to know that they've moved this far ahead in their specific proposal.

A free trade agreement with Malaysia is about more than economics.

The mood on Capitol Hill is not a pleasant one, ... There's a divisiveness that I think we haven't seen in a long time and I worry about that. I like to think that I've been a moderating influence on that.

Any realistic guest-worker program must include provisions for those who are already in this country regardless of how they arrived here,

As chairman of the subcommittee responsible for Iraq's reconstruction, I have seen the positive and necessary oversight role a special inspector general plays in monitoring this spending.

You're finding there is a lot of competition among these plans to get different drugs signed up and to get them at the lowest possible costs because they want to attract people to their plan.

They need to weigh all of this because if you don't sign up for it now and you wait 10 years to sign up for it, when you're 75, you're going to pay a much higher premium.

they have got to turn up the heat?. The president has got to work on building up support for this.

The bill before us today does nothing to solve the real problems of immigration. It's worse than nothing because it tries to fool the public. It pulls the wool over their eyes. It pretends we are doing something to secure our border when in fact we are doing nothing except throw words and money at the problem.