John Bel Edwards

Let me be absolutely clear. Any time, any place that I need to be with Elizabeth, I will be there, period.

We've been confronted with these kind of traumas and struggles already in our life. And we know from our previous experience that when this happens, you have a choice. You can go cower in the corner and hide or you can be tough and go out…

John Edwards was very clear early on that her health came first and came first before any of his political ambitions.

He thinks that he's in a good place. So definitely had a real chance, a real shot at the nomination here.

He's running on a platform that's adjusted a little bit from the way that he was running in the early going in 2004, before he became the running mate.

We've committed to operate this house in a carbon-neutral way, which means, in addition to using energy-saving devices in the house itself, to the extent that doesn't cover it, we're going to purchase carbon credits on the market.

I would take 40,000 to 50,000 out immediately. And then over the course of the next year to a year and a half, be in the process of withdrawing American troops and redeploying them.

The only way that's going to happen is for America to stop enabling them, stop enabling their past bad behavior, and start pulling our troops out of Iraq so that they take responsibility.

What's missing here is the president is basically and fundamentally wrong. He seems to think that somehow if we put more troops behind what has been failing time and time again, that it will make it work. And I just think he's wrong.

I was surprised, when he -- especially at the end of the speech, when he was identifying a whole group of American heroes who were in the gallery. And I sort of got this sense inside of what Americans I think want, which is a sense of…

It is the responsibility of the president of the United States to lead when this kind of crisis and this kind of catastrophe occurs, and he hasn't done it.

If I were in charge and I were making decision alone, I think the primary responsibility of this Congress is oversight on what's happening and accountability on what's happening in Iraq.

Yes, sir. I'm ready to be president.

I think this idea of escalating the war is an enormous mistake.

Look for an announcement tomorrow from John Edwards. That's when the former Democratic senator and John Kerry running mate will declare his presidential candidacy.

We need to get this economy back in line with our values, the things you and I grew up believing in -- hard work, responsibility, integrity, fairness. These are things that George Bush just does not understand.

If the gentleman is trying to suggest that Thomas Jefferson didn't endorse the principle of church- state separation, I would remind my colleague it was Thomas Jefferson who was the first American to use the term ``wall of separation…

Let me take back my time, because that is misleading. Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison debated for 10 years in the Virginia legislature the principle of church-state separation, and it was absolutely the core idea behind the 16 words of the…

Okay. Since we have used more of our time, and since we may not have to use the entire time allotted, could I yield back, not my time, but to the gentleman from Colorado for the purposes of his speaker being recognized.

I have one more speaker, Mr. Berry of Arkansas, whom I would like to recognize. I would like to say that Mr. Berry led the charge to send a letter to the chairman and the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee urging the adoption…

I believe Mr. Shadegg, my colleague from Arizona, just said a few seconds ago that these projects were not requested by the administration. If I heard him correctly, that is a patently false statement. These projects, these $379 million…

Given that the subject of this issue deals with the solemn subject of war, my question is, would I be in order to ask for unanimous consent that each Member of the House be allowed up to 5 minutes to speak his or her conscience on this…

They want to know we're not the same as the Republicans.

The country wants strong leadership.

I think we will win the governor's race in -- in New Jersey. I think Senator Corzine will be successful there.