Barbara Boxer

If he gets the gavel--he doesn't say if, he says when, which he said for a long time--that his first thing is to go after the EPA because he says they are going after the petroleum industry.

We really have a different way of seeing the world but you can make up your opinions but you cannot make up the facts. That is the truth.

I am very disappointed. Really, as a woman to woman, I am very disappointed.

Well, that is the right thing to do.

Leadership means stepping out with a fresh start, and I don't see it.

These issues run deep, and we have work to do.

So the old GM in 2005, you are not aware that they used a cost-benefit analysis to determine that fixing the problem was not, quote, ``an acceptable business case.''

I was shocked that there was such a cold and calculating way that Ford decided not to fix a fatal flaw in their fuel tank.

I have here a timeline of when the company knew there were problems.

It is completely unacceptable.

You knew nothing about this?

It is okay to do for a safety item; is that what you are saying?

Do you support a proposed law by Senator McCaskill and myself that would say recalled cars like yours can no longer be rented or loaned?

If this is the new GM leadership, it is pretty lacking.

I think it is important that we have skin in the game and we want accountability

Frankly, I don't want to see this thing go into another meltdown, is this going to ruin the whole bill and the rest of it.

Besides the obesity, with those projects, and if we set those thresholds to allow for quicker project delivery, it builds credibility in the government process.

It would kick up my asthma.

Don't you think it would make some sense to build a two-lane bridge?

Others said resiliency, given the weather.

It is good to have a wingman that trusts you so much.

I want to say that, Mayor Ballard, if it is possible, because you are such an eloquent voice for this Alternative Transportation Program...

If I came over with you, I could hurt you politically.

I would say this, having gone through some of these rebuilds after earthquakes and so on, we never waive quality.

Anyone who has convinced the public they have a paper of truth is someone who I will listen to.