"If you thought, Boy, you are really going to have to pay for any screw-up you cause, are you going to be a lot more careful?"
"I insist that, in the future, oil companies do everything they can to prevent needless deaths and catastrophic environmental harm."
"If criminal conduct occurred, it should be and it will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
"The Exxon Court believed that predictability for corporations was more important than deterring misconduct. I disagree."
"I expressed my concern at that time that the Supreme Court's Exxon Valdez decision would encourage corporate misconduct."
"Congress must act."
"The economy will turn. Those children who fall into the rabbit hole of poverty right now will not recover."
"I think it costs more money to keep somebody in jail than send them to Harvard University."
"As a nation--I agree with Mrs. Powell, who described the situation regarding our kids as abysmal."
"I think, frankly, it is a national disgrace."
"So, it becomes a class issue, and not just an abstract health issue."
"In a democracy, it's not so easy to do that."
"If we ignore kids... many of these kids are going to end up in jail, and many of these kids are going to end up in government assistance."
"the American tradition is that immigrants move up the ladder, as they have for many hundreds of years, and it's our job to make sure that that happens."
"The rate of children living in poverty this year will climb to nearly 22 percent, the highest rate in two decades."
"But, it's important to understand that arriving immigrants find themselves on the lower rungs of the economic ladder."
"I think it's an international disgrace, that we have the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world."
"It must be a priority to mitigate the impacts of the spill on both the delicate and vital gulf ecosystem, and on coastal communities where fisheries and tourism provide jobs for millions of Americans."
