John F. Kerry: “This is the most important part of this hearing, as far as I am concerned, so I apologize for not being able to listen…”

We will do everything in our power to help you, and I think your last comment is very important.

I'm going to vote for you because of the standard I have about the President having intelligent, bright people, if they're honorable--and you're all of those things--he gets to choose who he wants.

I was deeply troubled by the unwillingness of Dr. Rice, just very candidly and simply to answer the question about torture.

In an effort to try to make sure it doesn't, we put a provision in the amendment that authorizes the SBA to make the supplemental loans for Katrina victims that included oversight protections.