"I am interested in fixing the system. And I think that's what all Americans, African-Americans, as well as whites, as well as Hispanics, want to see happen is making sure we're prepared for the next time out."
"How could local, state and federal authorities let this debacle happen? Who should ultimately get the blame?"
"Well, look, we just voted for $60 billion worth of funding to go down to the Gulf Coast. And I think that one of the good things about this past couple of weeks, in the midst of this tragedy, is seein..."
"I introduced legislation this week to say that every state, local official working with the federal government has to have a plan to get out folks who are disabled, folks who are poor, folks who don't..."
"Well what I can say is is that local, state, federal officials working together did not seem to have a good plan to get those folks out."
"Now the test for a qualified judicial nominee is not simply whether they are intelligent."
"decide each case on the facts and the merits alone. That is what our Founders intended. Judicial decisions ultimately have to be based on evidence and on facts. They have to be based on precedent and ..."
"Newly elected Senator Barack Obama, IL, attended the Feb. 3, 2005 hearing before the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee as a Member of the Committee."
"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage."
"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America, there is the United States of America."
"This is a guy who has better prepared for the presidency than anybody I've ever seen. Enormously engaging, enormously caring, and enormously intelligent."