"If you intend to deceive voters, you will be punished."
"These two issues--the need for federal legislation banning deceptive practices and Justice Department enforcement of federal voting rights protections--are the focus of my testimony today."
"What we need is greater enforcement of the Federal Voting Rights Act."
"I still think we need to have a hearing on ACORN because they have been made the poster child of illegal voting in America..."
"We need to carry on the discussion that Chairman Nadler raised in terms of how we comprehensively and effectively approach the issues raised here."
"voter ID is, as has been said so many times, a solution in search of a problem"
"There is additional history involving other populations that were also mistreated during World War II that have not been sufficiently examined."
"Reconciliation and justice can only come after the truth is known, and as commissions of inquiry have played important roles in the United States and abroad."
"Today, we're going to look at the government's actions during World War II."
"There is a consensus that the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in the 1980s was particularly effective in confronting the historical record."
"But how can you talk about a 'free market' when CEOs whose companies went bankrupt walk away with $40 or $50 million?"