Barbara Mikulski actually said...

"We can't go there again."

"Everybody likes to talk today about American exceptionalism. It really is our intellectual ideas."

"We don't want a sequester either. Now, we might disagree on a line item or an agency here or there, but we know a sequester is not in the interest of the country over the long haul."

"Your leadership in the appropriations action brought all of us together."