"I think there is a real issue there."
"I feel very uncomfortable with the amount of money we are spending and how we are spending it."
"My favorite reference is to Walt Whitman, who once defined America as an athletic democracy."
"Is America less civil than it was a hundred years ago?"
"The reason I ask the question is we hear all the time that Congress, since we are in Congress, is more uncivil than it has ever been."
"Your service in the House is noteworthy for many legislative achievements, but to me your enduring legacy remains your unfailing sense of humility and civility."
"I have been a long-time supporter of both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities."
"But things are changing so rapidly, and the average student today is going to have to be retrained for a new job an average of seven times in his lifetime."
"My hope is that that will continue."
"But I want you to know, Mr. Hinchey, seeing you are from New York, there were many on the other side of this issue too in New York."
"I have a soldier from my district, I happen to know his family, who is in jail now from Iraq."