"We know that every several decades you get these kinds of pandemics that sweep through the populations. We don't know that this particular bird flu will show up next year and we won't be ready. But we know that some time in the next decade or two there is going to be a pandemic, and we've got to put..."
"We are not ready for it. If you look at the last pandemic we had on U.S. soil, that was the Spanish flu that took place in 1918, 1919, you had literally millions of deaths. And unfortunately this is o..."
"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..."
"How could local, state and federal authorities let this debacle happen? Who should ultimately get the blame?"
"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 t..."
"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."
"What we're doing is we're putting a CFO, a comptroller in the White House that is overseeing how this money gets spent."
"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 ..."
"Now the test for a qualified judicial nominee is not simply whether they are intelligent."
"Newly elected Senator Barack Obama, IL, attended the Feb. 3, 2005 hearing before the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee as a Member of the Committee."