"I appreciate it. I have gone over my time, which I was doing happily and willingly because I was at the end of the line here."
"Every 2 years it can."
"How in the world can we allow, in the year 2009, for us to say, that is just the way life is?"
"I think we are headed into, I think, a fiscal crisis that is going to make the current economic problem look like a picnic."
"Do we presently have an authority in government that can oversee the dynamic process of engagement?"
"With your chairmanship and the leader's Cabinet position, we are on the road to healthcare reform, I believe."
"George Bush's Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has written recently that there is $1 trillion a year of excess cost in our health care system, and he is no fool, is he?"
"In early 2008, Chairman Reed very appropriately wrote the accounting standard setters citing concerns about the accounting standards for off balance sheet debt."
"Thank you very much, Director. Let me first tell you how much we appreciate the work that you did back in, I guess, 2008, on the original IRIS process, which as GAO found lent itself to interference, ..."
"A nation eager for change in Iraq heard the President speak about his plans for the future. But, once again, the president failed to provide either a plan to successfully end the war or a convincing r..."
"Well, we're clearly not winning. And we're in danger of losing in Iraq, unless we take dramatic action, unless the president takes dramatic action."
"A third of our brigades in the United States are reporting non-deployable because of personnel and equipment shortages."
"the president is always right."
"This amendment is not cut and run. This is not about a date certain. This is about getting the president to do the job correctly, something he's failed to do for the last three years and three months."
"The change of policy that we call for is significant. The administration's policy to date, that we will be there for as long as Iraq needs us, will result in Iraq's depending upon us longer."
"A fixed deadline would not, I think, be in the best interests of the United States."
"I was disappointed. The president relied too much upon rhetoric, upon a laundry list of tasks accomplished, but not a coherent view of where we are realistically and where we must go to succeed."
