
Shouldn't there be some minimal accountability? That's all we're asking.
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Shouldn't there be some minimal accountability? That's all we're asking.

It's a sorry state of affairs, this broken Congress.

To do exactly what Joe is saying...

He talks a lot about stepping up and taking responsibility and taking strong positions. But when it came time to step up and decide whether or not he would support universal health care coverage, he chose not to do that.

As president, she would not support illegal immigrants getting driver's licenses.

When Senator Edwards ran in 2004, he wasn't for universal health care. I'm glad he is now. But for him to be throwing this mud and making these charges, I think really detracts from what we're trying to do here tonight.

But when somebody starts throwing mud, at least we can hope that it's both accurate and not right out of the Republican playbook.

Hell no. I wouldn't support any of these guys. No, I'm joking. Of course. I'd support them all.

Oh, no, no, no, no. Don't do it. No. Don't make me speak.

The American people don't give a darn about any of this stuff that's going on up here.

I'm not exploiting anything at all. I'm not playing, as some people say, the gender card here in Las Vegas. I'm just trying to play the winning card. And I understand very well that people are not attacking me because I'm a woman. They're…

I believe that the Bush administration has allowed this situation to worsen and fester, because they won't have any diplomatic relations of any sort with Iran. So what I would do is to immediately begin that kind of negotiation. And I…

I'm perfectly comfortable leaving these assessments up to the American people to make their judgments among us.

The American people know where I stand.

When it came time to step up and decide whether or not he would support universal health care coverage, he chose not to do that. His plan would leave 15 million Americans out.

I respect all of my colleagues on this stage. And, you know, we're Democrats, and we're trying to nominate the very best person we can to win.

They're not attacking me because I'm a woman. They're attacking me because I'm ahead.