The Federal prohibition on torture... is constitutional.

I think there was confusion between Martha's 'Apprentice' and mine. Mine continues to do well and, as you know, the other one has struggled very severely. But I think it probably hurt mine, and I sort of predicted that it would.

But I'm telling you that the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama that make up the energy coast of this country need help from this United States government. We are American taxpayers, black and white, rich and poor. We should not…

So the fact that the fraud occurred in an arena in which derivatives were being utilized does not mean that the derivatives caused the fraud or that there was anything with regard to derivatives regulations that would have changed it, am I…

We had the same point under Enron, if I remember correctly. When we ultimately got into the bottom of it, it was not even the derivatives which were at issue, although they were blamed.

Miers told him that she agrees with the legal precedent for Roe versus Wade.

She said no, she had not. She said, Nobody knows my views on Roe v. Wade. She said, No one can speak for me on Roe v. Wade.

It's absolutely justifiable and I have news for people, it's probably going to be more than $250 billion when all is said and done. And this is for Louisiana and the nation that it serves, and the Gulf Coast region.

We're left to try to gather little pieces and shreds of evidence and do almost a 'CSI'-type of operation to try to conjecture out of that where a person will be.

Number two, we've got to have a stockpile of antiviral drugs that cut down the fatalities so that even if you contract the disease, you don't die from it.

We are not ready for it. If you look at the last pandemic we had on U.S. soil, that was the Spanish flu that took place in 1918, 1919, you had literally millions of deaths. And unfortunately this is one of these situations where if you had…

We know that every several decades you get these kinds of pandemics that sweep through the populations. We don't know that this particular bird flu will show up next year and we won't be ready. But we know that some time in the next decade…

There are a couple of things we've got to do. Number one, we have got to have good surveillance mechanisms set up not just in this country but internationally. And I already allocated about $35 million to start cooperating with other…

We know that there's going to be some sort of pandemic in our lifetimes. We don't know whether this will be the big one. And I hope that people realize that if we have a sense of urgency about this, and this particular bird flu doesn't end…

So anyone with that background makes me feel good. Someone who has been in a courtroom, tried cases, answered interrogatories, done all those things that lawyers need to do.

It could have been worse.

Chuck Schumer the Democrat, liberal senator from New York.

We need a lot of help.