Ray Mabus: “I will protect shipbuilding until the last dog dies.”

the President said repeatedly that he would veto a budget that locked in sequestration level funding.

Even after death, his voice still spoke, his struggles continued and his cause [was] taken up by countless others.

One of the things that's the most awesome about our democracy is how we have a peaceful transfer of power.

If it was not giving us what we needed, or if it was too expensive, or if it wasn't going to perform in the way that it should, we killed them.