"This is the most anti-environment House in the history of Congress."
"The priorities reflected in the Republican budget are wrong."
"We can out-compete China. We can grow a stronger and better America, with jobs and opportunities for everyone who works hard and plays by the rules."
"House Republicans seem to want to return to an America that pre-dated the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the Great Society."
"letting States try things out on their own."
"Here we have proposals to cut the safety net out of the poor, take away the guaranteed benefit for Medicare so that millionaires and billionaires can have tax cuts. That makes no sense to me."
"Nobody in Canada said, take away their health care for all the people. They said let's do some things on a bipartisan basis that make sense."
"The auto bailout was a success. Why are we fighting against what was a success?"
"I think we all understand that there is a need for government and a need for it to have reasonable regulations."
"The rich and powerful want to stay rich and powerful. And the less government gets involved to make things fairer for everybody they will get richer and they will be more powerful."
"And now that we have opened the campaign laws to unlimited and dead-end unreported contributions from corporations, I don't think that the lower income people are going to benefit."