Bill Nelson

The problem is, they never follow through.

I've had a difference of opinion with the administration, and I think you did have a policy of regime change.

When a leader, such as Chavez in Venezuela, starts lurching to the left, and yet we have a dependency there...

Haiti is a disaster. And it's going to continue to be a disaster until we get engaged and do something seriously...

I thank Chairwoman Collins and Ranking Member Lieberman for their comments and support on this important issue. Our efforts here today are focused on encouraging the Department of Homeland Security to further increase passenger vessel…

I say to the Senator that sadly Mr. McCollum, former Congressman, who ended up second in the Republican primary, a fellow I have known since high school and who has some very high principles, because he announced that he was in favor of…

I have seen it in my State of Florida recently, interestingly, in the Republican primary, meanness where the truth doesn't matter, where you can be opponents, but you don't have to be enemies, and it is there nevertheless. It is time for…

Then this Senator certainly would not have to encourage the quickening of the interests in all of this hurricane disaster assistance relief as this Senator speaks with the Senator from Mississippi, because right now Hurricane Ivan, a…

Then this Senator simply makes a recommendation that we should never be in an emergency posture like we were last week, where FEMA is not carrying the adequate reserves. On Thursday, they ran out of money and were, in fact, not spending…

Then I would say to the distinguished Senator from Mississippi, I was given to believe that, in fact, was a decision that was made, that this hurricane relief was going to be attached to this Homeland Security bill. I got that impression…

What we have gotten in a few minutes is a short course of what, in the opinion of this Senator from Delaware, and in the opinion of this Senator from Florida, we need to do: Internationalize the effort, build a consensus, reach out, bring…

Why, in his opinion, does the administration continue to resist the outreach of building consensus in the international community, to help us with problems such as Iraq and Iran and North Korea? Why is there resistance to that, I ask the…

I further ask my friend from Delaware, given the fact of what we have heard in the testimony in the Foreign Relations Committee over the last week, and also in the Senate Armed Services Committee; given the fact my friend from Delaware and…

I further ask the distinguished former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee with regard to nuclear weapons and the acquiring of nuclear technology and the ability to make a bomb in Iran, are we safer today than we were 4 years ago?

Then, Mr. President, indeed this is what the Senator from Delaware has constantly preached. He has been a Johnny-one-note on how we ought to engage with other nations around this world, through diplomacy, to better the protection of the…

In thinking about the question of are you better off now than you were 4 years ago, are you safer now than you were 4 years ago, I have had the privilege of sitting at the knee of the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations…

Now you can't tell me that all of this was going on with seven or eight Army privates, and so the question is where did that failure of the command and control occur?

How in the world could our friends, who call themselves conservatives, vote for anything but a conservative budget such as this that, as the Senator from North Dakota has characterized it, is radical? How could our friends, who claim they…

Isn't it interesting that when we voted on all these issues in the Budget Committee and on the floor of the Senate, that organizations that rate the votes, even respected organizations such as the National Journal, when they determined…

Isn't it interesting, if you will put the other chart up there--Mr. President, I thank the Senator for yielding for a question--how the old labels don't mean anything anymore--what is conservative and what is liberal. We are now looking at…

This commission is not going to have the ability to subpoena. If that commission...is not given the power to subpoena, how in the world are you going to get to the truth?

The distinguished 9/11 commission composed of well-respected and very accomplished people, headed by former Governor of New Jersey Kean and so many other distinguished citizens on that panel questioning the intelligence and trying to find…

Both parties. That is not a commentary on the people on the commission because these people seem to be--several of them are personal friends of mine--enormously accomplished people. It is the question of setting up the commission. If I…

What it was billed as was a $400 billion bill for prescription drugs. We now find it is $525 billion over 10 years. And where did it go mostly? As a bailout to the pharmaceutical companies and as a bailout to the insurance companies.

Or what about what we did in the Medicare bill here, the prescription drug bill, for which the Senator from Michigan and the Senator from Florida certainly didn't vote.