Bob Kerrey: “my view is that this is a reasonable amendment. I understand there is no budget cost.”

If you believe it is project based, I am quite enthusiastic that the recommendations that we are making in this report will produce real results.

We are all getting--we are living longer.

You have locked yourselves together into the idea of opposition. Opposition not to an idea but to a man, a man who came to this town green and experienced in our ways. And he wants America to do better, to be better, and to continue to…

The reforms we have embarked on over the last 16 months... are substantive and systematic, not just cosmetic.