John B. Breaux: “Are you comfortable with the ability of the system that we have set up now to permit that type of attack on a vessel in…”

My opinion is that in order to ever reach an agreement between the two parties, Congress is going to have to combine the best of what government can do with the best of what the private sector can do and put the two together.

The great challenge today I would just suggest to both my Democratic colleagues and my Republican friends and colleagues... is how do both political parties bridge the gap between the different political philosophies and produce health…

I think the whole debate politically about ending Medicare as we know it, I think we want to change Medicare.

I think it's hers to lose. I think it's the consensus among Democrats that I've talked to that she's clearly in the lead, is clearly the person that they have to beat.