Bob Menendez

I'm delighted you're going to join me on that trip.

We need--and I've expressed this to you privately, and I hope I can get your commitment here publicly--a strong advocate.

The regime has become more oppressive.

We are willing to open our hands and offer you a hand in friendship if you are willing to unlock your clenched fist.

It is my sincere honor to introduce Cecilia Rouse as President-elect Obama's nominee for the Presidential Council of Economic Advisors.

I am going to support your nomination. I am going to hold you to what I expect to see in robust enforcement.

I think this nomination hearing is one of the most important this Committee will hold.

I am confident that the committee--and the full Senate--will conclude that he is exceptionally well-qualified to serve in this important position with great distinction.

This is a bittersweet hearing for me. My hermano, as we call each other, 'my brother,' is going to go serve the Nation, he's going to leave the Senate, where he has served with such distinction.

I hope you will come, after you're the Interior Secretary, with me to the Statue of Liberty, help me break the shackles on the crown.

We will embrace the ethic of renewable energy with a new vigor and a new resolve.

The ability is not by direct intervention of the United States, but by assisting the hybrid African Union-U.N. forces.

If we are to have any meaning to never again being something of import, then we must do more than just simply stand by the sidelines.

I want to applaud your stand that you have taken concerning genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan.

Finally, as Senators, we all know that we can't make all the people love all the decisions we make all of the time.

She will not only be the first African American Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, I believe she will be the best Environmental Protection Agency Administrator we have seen in the history of that department.

I am confident that the Committee and the full Senate will see that she is eminently qualified for the position and will confirm her for this important post.

This is to try to drive at municipal and county levels a lot of the efforts.

I do not think anybody disputes that.

There is no question that if we had had better disclosure and better information as it relates to home ownership today, we would not have the problems we have.

The housing crisis, I will only echo what others have said, is unquestionably at the very root and the very heart of the economic crisis our country faces today

I have always believed that risk-based pricing may be part of what they must do.

40 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, a good part of our country remains highly segregated.

I believe that every family, every man, woman, and child, deserves a place to call home.

I think you will serve very well at OMB.