"I congratulate President Obama on your nominations. From what I have seen in my opportunity to meet with each of you, I believe you bring to the government the kind of experience and good judgment tha..."
"That is just a dangerous thing and I hope that you will recognize, as you and I talked earlier, that each President does have a responsibility during his watch to not only pay the salaries of our pers..."
"I believe strongly that best value is a fundamental principle of any good acquisition system."
"I congratulate all of you on your nominations. I think the Senate will do its duty and you'll move right along."
"I thought it was an inexplicable pardon. I believe that it reversed the recommendation of Margaret Love, a very fine pardon attorney, who I believe you removed, and allowed this to go forward in a way..."
"I do think--and I particularly find the Rich pardon that you acquiesced in and leaned toward to be problematic"
"Maybe you ought to discuss that with the young people of America."
"Congratulations, Mr. Holder, on the nomination. You certainly bring excellent background and experience to the job."
"The spirit tends to be in the eye of the beholder."
"What the Constitution requires is what you are committed to do."
"It is unthinkable that prisoners of war, particularly those who do not comply with the rules of warfare and violate the Geneva Conventions, would be given the same rights as an American citizen accuse..."
"The FBI Director, Mr. Freeh, opposed it, and he had labeled FALN one of the three greatest domestic terrorist threats to the United States in 1998."
"It strikes me that after all of that flap over the FALN pardon that the Deputy Attorney General... should have been even more resistant to the Marc Rich pardon."
"Senator Lieberman's legislation authorized, up to 30,000."
"In my opinion, it is not reasonable, it is not close."
"I know sending more troops to Afghanistan is a bitter pill to me, but I do think that Senator McCain, Senator Lieberman, and others have made the case in Iraq at a very difficult time that we needed t..."
"we do need to listen to their advice about how to be successful."
"I think we have a right to ask for that. Don't you?"
