"I'm retiring next year, by the way."
"I think it's just a milestone."
"Thank you very much, Dr. Collins, for a very lucid presentation."
"I fought hard to overturn the Bush Administration limitation on stem cell research."
"But I just want to get that out just so that people understand that and that, hopefully, the House won't repeat that again this year."
"This place, this Senate, this Congress, however much you may read to the contrary in the newspapers and the media, it does respond to you."
"I believe it is the Department of Labor that touches the lives of ordinary working Americans the most on a day-to-day basis."
"In Tennessee, Governor Haslam has proposed this week that community college be free, which would make our State the only one to do that, I believe."
"I am for delegating more."
"The issues that are facing the Department are front and center in our national dialog right now."
"Every Governor I know is focused on it. That is where most of the action is."