Barbara Boxer

If women in the world were allowed to live up to their potential, it would bring the whole world forward.

I'm so proud that you mentioned global warming in your talk, and that Senator Kerry, our chairman, is going to be so dedicated to helping you lead the charge in terms of a solution, internationally.

Our leadership is sorely needed there to protect the innocents--not just in the short term, but in the long term.

You face unbelievable challenges--you and the President-elect.

I think by nominating you, President-elect Obama has sent a message that world peace and stability trumps politics and ego.

We really do need to reform the H-2B program. No one's happy about it.

We look to you to really revitalize and reinvigorate the Women's Bureau. We need to enforce existing laws on the books...

I am pleased to hear that the House today is voting on legislation to fix the gaping loophole in the law left by the Supreme Court's Ledbetter decision.

I'm here to really bear witness to this woman. I know her as well as I know any other colleague.

This change couldn't come a moment too soon.

Big flashing yellow light about the pension guarantee, which I fear we're going to be turning to more and more.

What a banner day it is. And I hope you will swiftly confirm this very worthy nominee.

I think that this nomination is a clear message from President-elect Obama that America's working families will be heard.

We want to make sure that the tax cuts create jobs. And that's what we're working with them on. And we'd like to see more attention paid to the housing crisis in this package.

I would quote from Thomas Friedman, sometimes we have a real problem that is masquerading as an insoluble problem.

I don't know one Senator who said that we are not interested in moving toward cleaner coal.

Knowing what you know now, would you have taken some different steps than you took?

We cannot forget all of the stuff that is in this muck is stuff that is so dangerous that we pass laws to get it out of the air.

I think your point that we should consider asking, and I will ask Lisa Jackson this when she comes before us, there ought to be a way to say that that wet storage, we have enough proof to know that it is very dangerous.

We can and we must do better. We have cleaner technologies.

I don't think you'd send your grandkid out to play in an area like that.

We do not. That is why I wanted to--please go on. I just wanted to make sure you knew.

Well, let me make a suggestion. And I think that Tom Carper really picked up on it and I want to thank him.

The great challenge of how we produce and consume energy in this Country cries out for leadership from the power industry.

I don't want to get off of this spill today, but this is important.