"There's just no need to sully or dampen, or anything, the tremendous opportunities that you have."
"It seems to me a Secretary of State really has two major responsibilities. One is to be our chief dealmaker."
"I think you're the right person to be doing it at this time, and I thank you for your leadership."
"Underneath this comedy, this sort of -- this period of good feelings between the two, there are going to be sharp departures under the Obama administration from what the Bush administration was doing."
"Underneath this comity, this period of good feelings between the two, there are going to be sharp departures under the Obama administration from what the Bush administration was doing."
"we support you, we want a stimulus package, but we want to be at the table, and we want a voice in this."
"President-elect Obama saying today that he's basically growing impatient over political posturing by members of Congress about the stimulus plan."
"I think it's laughable. And the -- what's most interesting and what's most important to see in this impeachment that has come forward now is it came out of committee unanimously."
"this guy's nuts, he's crazy."
"I think that the -- they were a little surprised in the Obama camp that people in the Congress said they would get this done by January 20."
"Listen, I think everybody, all the economists agree that only the government can now do this. That the Federal Reserve has exhausted its remedies, it can't do very much, it's always working, but it ca..."
"The casualty out of all of this really may be his other plans. I don't know where -- when he gets this done, as I think he will, how does he then pay for health care reform long-term?"
"The issue here is not whether we can stop a recession. The issue is whether we can stop a recession from going much deeper and much longer."
"Listen, I think everybody -- all the economists agree that only the government can now do this, that the Federal Reserve has exhausted its remedies."
"If we don't do this, it will cost us even more. This economy is now in the worst shape since the Great Depression. And if we do not respond in a very firm way, it gets worse and worse and feeds on its..."
"So, I think the politics are becoming much more treacherous for Barack Obama."
"There's zero evidence that anybody around Obama, or Obama himself, even knew that there was this kind of horse-trading going on for a Senate seat for money or favors of one sort and another."
"There's zero evidence that anybody around Obama or Obama himself even knew that there was this kind of horse trading going on for the senate seat for money or favors of one sort or another."
