Political Quotes

You and our colleagues have heard me invoke in this room more times than I can count the Golden Rule: Treat other people the way I want to be treated.

If I had known--as you know, the breadth of the issues that we cover in this Committee are enormous. It is impossible for any of us to fully master each of them.

Given how important this obviously is, my only regret is that we didn't have an opportunity to talk about it 24 hours ago.

Thank you for your passion, and I would ask that we spend the rest of this day dealing with this.