I would be very happy if they would release the briefing.

Those briefings made in September 2002 gave me inaccurate and incomplete information. The only mention of water-boarding at that briefing was that it was not being employed.

Those briefing me in September 2002 gave me inaccurate and incomplete information. The only mention of water-boarding at that briefing was that it was not being employed.

In the briefing that I received, we were told that they had legal opinions that this was legal. We were not told that it was -- that there were other legal opinions to the contrary in the administration, and we were told specifically that…

We were not -- I repeat, not -- told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used.

People are very unhappy with these bailouts.

We're more likely to build a new energy future with good, green-collar jobs for working Americans if we ensure that a new energy policy is an investment strategy as well as a regulatory strategy.

The challenge for Congressional leaders today will be to ensure that we all get there together: working men and women alongside industry, environmentalists, and our national security community.

the way to move forward as a nation is "through science, science, science, and science."

Quite frankly, I would have done it faster.

We cannot allow the perfect to be the enemy of the effective and of the necessary.

We cannot allow the perfect to be the enemy of the effective and of the necessary.

We cannot allow the perfect to be the enemy of the effective and of the necessary.

My colleagues, as we gather here today, the American people are watching and are waiting. They want to see if we can act on their behalf. They want to know if we have heard their pleas. They are concerned about their jobs--whether they can…

As we recognize John today, we thank and congratulate his family for sharing him with us: his wife, the lovely Deborah as he refers to her; and his children, John, the Third, Christopher, Jeannie and Jennifer. Last night, hundreds of…

What we had in the bill that we wish was still there, but the fact is that there's plenty there to create that nearly four million jobs that the president has set as our goal.

What we had in the bill that we wish was still -- we wish that was still there, but the fact is, is that there's plenty there to create the nearly four million jobs that the president has set as our goal.

As President Obama cautioned the nation that we cannot allow the perfect to be the effective enemy of the effective and of the necessary and we will not.

As President Obama cautioned the nation, that we cannot allow the perfect to be the enemy of the effective and of the necessary. And we will not.

Today, we have reaffirmed with this resolution that Israel, like any nation, has a right to defend itself when under attack. Protecting the people of our country is the first responsibility any of us has, and so has Israel. The rocket and…

Pay equity, fairness to women in the workplace, the Lily Ledbetter act, this is the -- these are our priorities.

Put me down as clearly as you possibly can as one who wants to have those tax cuts for the wealthiest in America repealed.

Both the Bush administration and the incoming Obama administration to try and settle on one car czar who can actually have a term that's going to last longer than George W. Bush; it's unprecedented cooperation we're talking about for…

We call this the barber shop. Everybody is getting a haircut here in terms of the conditions of the bill.

We call this the barbershop. Everybody is getting a haircut here in terms of the conditions of the bill.