John F. Kerry: “This proposal of Senator Lieberman's and mine has been described as the end of Western civilization as we know it.”

I'm going to vote for you because of the standard I have about the President having intelligent, bright people, if they're honorable--and you're all of those things--he gets to choose who he wants.

In an effort to try to make sure it doesn't, we put a provision in the amendment that authorizes the SBA to make the supplemental loans for Katrina victims that included oversight protections.

This is the most important part of this hearing, as far as I am concerned, so I apologize for not being able to listen to each of you.

I apologize very much for being late. I expected to be on time, but I was meeting with some of the families, military families of kids who were in Iraq