"There is no excuse for that."
"I am very concerned about the trade deficit we have with that region."
"Our Government has not been representing the interests of the American people."
"Who is watching out for the American people? It is supposed to be us."
"First, I want to join the gentleman from Illinois in expressing my concern and solidarity with the people of American Samoa at this time."
"I think we need to take a step back and just think of how wonderful it is that we are going to see 100 million books available in every village on this planet."
"If Congress doesn't act, maybe that is irresponsible."
"The overriding message here is this knowledge needs to be made available, and I hope that we do that as quickly as possible."
"I think the only thing irresponsible is to tell the people of the world they are not going to have access to all the knowledge in all the books for which authors cannot be found."
"I think the principles of that law, if not directly applicable to copyright, but the general principle of law in my State is that we want unused property and unclaimed property made use of, and we wan..."
"September 11 occurred because we, as Americans, were too damned arrogant to realize we were vulnerable and too comfortable to think the unthinkable."