"A bold, new commitment to public transportation is needed to reduce congestion on our roads."
"Polluters do not want to pay."
"In fact, Admiral Mullen was talking about young veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in their 20's in California who are essentially homeless."
"Thank you, Mr. Secretary for your visit to the Providence VA. It was a wonderful trip, and it shows your commitment to our veterans."
"This is something we've got to do, and I want to work with you and I'm sure all my colleagues do and the chairman to address this issue."
"We need strong, lawful, fact-based regulation out of EPA."
"So, if we wonder why the Senate is the last place in America that still does not get it, that climate change is a real problem for our people and that carbon pollution is something that people should ..."
"I honestly believe at this point without that we do not have a chance of passing a significant climate change bill here."
"The family farmer with the cattle pond can rest assured."
"the voices of the polluters and the polluting industries still prevail on the question of climate change."
"It is fair to inquire into a nominee's judicial philosophy, and we will here have a serious and fair inquiry."
"I particularly reject the analogy of a judge to an 'umpire' who merely calls 'balls and strikes.'"
"It actually gives me goose bumps to think about the path that has brought you here today."
"These calls for restraint and modesty, and complaints about 'activist' judges, are often codewords, seeking a particular kind of judge who will deliver a particular set of political outcomes."
"And so when we come to this distinguished Committee and say that this was in keeping with the practice of the Second Circuit, we have looked at it in every way that we possibly can to ensure what took..."
"Let me just raise one question."
"I think that homeland security was favored at the expense of hometown security, and there is, I think, a reasonable case to be made that it was done for political purposes to make America look like it..."
"I think that the irony here is it is the good times where the seeds are sown for the bigger harvest of the future."
