Bill Nelson

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.

The head of NASA ought to be a space professional, not a politician.

Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.

If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn't those be attainable by gays and lesbians?

The safety of the flying public should not be for sale. Handing air traffic control over to a private entity partly governed by the airlines is both a risk and liability we can't afford to take.

I'm going to make up my own mind as to what I think is in the best interest of our country and Florida.

Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.

If you're a terrorist, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun.

One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.

Simply put, if The Lord made homosexuals as well as heterosexuals, why should I discriminate against their civil marriage? I shouldn't, and I won't.