46 Quotes by John Ensign

We know what we did was right and fine and within ethics rules, and we wanted a stamp of approval from the Ethics Committee.

We want to make sure those people who were affected by these catastrophic storms get the aid they need, ... but that we make some sacrifices elsewhere so we don't pass this enormous bill on to our children.

His voting record until 1997 is one of supporting the repository, and he voted to make Nevada the sole repository site for waste. Nevadans deserve more than efforts to scare and mislead them.

He was acting as an advocate at the time, that's a different role than as a judge,

I respect him. I disagree with him on a lot of issues, and we fight for what we believe in on our various issues. But we never attack each other personally, we give each other space when we disagree, and it works out very, very well.

Our staff over the next couple months will be looking at the Healthy Forests Initiative to figure out how we can do this,

We as a Congress, need to get a better handle on the money being spent. We have an obligation to those affected by the hurricane as well as to those Americans we are asking to help pay the costs of relief.

We as a Congress, need to get a better handle on the money being spent,

Why should the American taxpayer not be paid back if the taxpayer in France, if the taxpayer in Germany, if the taxpayer in Russia -- countries that were not willing to support us when we were doing what was right in the world -- why should those taxpayers be paid back and not the taxpayers of America?