"Christopher Dodd is making his farewell speech and his father had served in the Senate, you know, probably 50 or 60 years."
"I'm just as curious as to why, because I suspect there are people who are involved in that who would also want to be associated and think of themselves."
"I'm kind of sick of it. Where we've got these dueling statements--and we've got one side saying, which I think is correct, and I don't know why everybody doesn't agree--that we don't attack both what'..."
"I too want to echo what Bernie Sanders said, and that is--and for me, of course, over the last 30 years..."
"We need to focus on it."
"The more we knew about that, the more we could do about it."
"We strengthened Head Start, I believe, and included within the new authorization Centers of Excellence."
"It is hard to believe that additional thinking and investment in this issue... would not pay enormous dividends for the Nation."
"You never failed children; you never faltered in being their advocate."
"I'm counting on you to get it done as I leave."
"The question we never could get anyone to do was to tell us, now what would be the cost saved if someone uses it and actually loses weight, becomes healthier and all the other aspects of it."