"I think both have evidenced a desire to work with Congress."
"The American people speak through those elections."
"if there is gridlock in the system, no matter how bad the consequences, it must never permit the President... to override the clear force of law."
"What I criticize is not their pursuit of politics but their pursuit of policies that they believe in and believe are deeply needed."
"I believe that any Administration will fill the vacuum, the void, left by congressional inaction when it comes to what needs to be done for the benefit of this country."
"Some of us come from an anti-regulatory philosophical bent of mind like Charles and David Koch."
"I didn't vote for the bailout because I didn't think that it was--the $700 billion was adequately restricted or conditioned."
"As a Member of Congress, I have stood on the streets of Detroit with a bullhorn and appealed for calm while my city burned around me in 1967."
"I have proposed numerous bills to both help protect the safety of police officers and to provide a system of accountability for law enforcement."
"I worked with Attorney General John Ashcroft at the invitation of President George Bush to craft Federal legislation intended to end use of racial profiling in police practices."
"I appreciate the different contributions from each of the five panelists, and I think we are off to a good discussion."
"But the fact of the matter is, how do we change this culture? This goes back a long ways."