Barbara Boxer actually said...

"We cannot walk away from it because we would be walking away from the future."

"I think it is important that so many people came here... We want to get this job done."

"I am averse to raising the gas tax. But I have not signed a pledge, and that means I am willing to see what we have to do."

"I think that is what we need right now. None of us is ideological about all this. We just want to be pragmatic and get this to happen."