Quotes by Bill Nelson

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.
– Bill Nelson
Congress took an important first step last year by passing an anti-spam law, but we need to toughen it. We've got to stop giving online schemers safe haven overseas.
– Bill Nelson
I am convinced that the nation requires more than one Atlantic coast naval station capable of home-porting nuclear aircraft carriers as a matter of strategic urgency and risk mitigation.
– Bill Nelson
If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.
– Bill Nelson
If you want to improve the intelligence-gathering mechanism and analysis, then you have to internationalize the effort.
– Bill Nelson
It takes the will of the American people to say there is going to be a different way.
– Bill Nelson
It's becoming clearer and clearer that the president and members of his administration have misinformed the Congress and America.
– Bill Nelson
It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.
– Bill Nelson
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.
– Bill Nelson
Sometimes we get lost in seeing the entire forest for the particular trees, but I think we need to pull back and see that this threat of radical terrorists is now being directed not only at us in the homeland, but it is being directed at a source of energy upon which the western industrialized world has become dependent.
– Bill Nelson
The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.
– Bill Nelson
The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
– Bill Nelson
There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war. Retiring an aircraft carrier more than a decade early isn't in the best interest of the nation at this time.
– Bill Nelson
Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.
– Bill Nelson
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.
– Bill Nelson
What is in the public interest? It is in the public interest to eliminate a threat to public health and safety.
– Bill Nelson
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.
– Bill Nelson