"That is just a dangerous thing and I hope that you will recognize, as you and I talked earlier, that each President does have a responsibility during his watch to not only pay the salaries of our personnel, but also to provide for the future the weapons systems that they may need, but take years to ..."
"Our preliminary analysis of the budget that the President has submitted would indicate that he will be taking the defense expenditure from over 4 percent, almost 4.5 percent of gross domestic product,..."
"I thought it was an inexplicable pardon. I believe that it reversed the recommendation of Margaret Love, a very fine pardon attorney, who I believe you removed, and allowed this to go forward in a way..."
"Congratulations, Mr. Holder, on the nomination. You certainly bring excellent background and experience to the job."
"I do think--and I particularly find the Rich pardon that you acquiesced in and leaned toward to be problematic"
"Do you agree with Senator Gregg--I think you do--that the purpose of the stimulus is to improve the economy as quickly as possible?"
"It is remarkable, as Senator Gregg indicated, the excitement that is out there about the possibility of a big spending pot, and everybody wants a part of it."
"These delays tend to be a depressant on going forward with nuclear power in general, and so we, I think, need to make a decision pretty quickly about whether we would want to support current technolog..."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for your leadership, and you and Senator Gregg for thinking very seriously about the challenge of our fiscal outlook and trying to do something about it."
"I believe that had a big impact in our economic slowdown. It is hurting people throughout this country."
"I was a bit troubled that you quoted Carter's decision. I think that was one of the more colossal disasters in the last 30 years in energy."