Emanuel Cleaver actually said...

"Do you think that we need to start trying to make sure that poor people living in those areas--as we are building affordable housing, should not we start thinking about building them with a higher lev..."

"I know there are probably people who believe climate change is some kind of joke that was invented on late-night TV."

"The top five States with the highest share of the homeless population are also among the top six States that are the most disaster-prone in the country."

"I think there seems to be a great interest in trying to make sure that we are successfully getting the other side looking bad as opposed to trying to get the policy straightened out."