Kweisi Mfume actually said...

"I continue to believe that our biggest challenge is to prevent the fraud to begin with, to stop it before it starts."

"I want to speak on behalf of those people. Because our job, at the end of the day, is to preserve and protect the environment and to protect the people who cannot get away from the environment they ar..."

"I want to make sure I am on the record so that members of the Committee on both sides of the aisle will at least respect the personal integrity of a witness before this Committee."

"We have tried to have discussions with CSX and others who are around and responsible in many respects for the mounds of coal. Those discussions have gone nowhere at all."