William R. Richardson

Yes, because I felt the best route was negotiations, intermediaries, the Catholic Church, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who had lines into the FARC.

when Congress passed the BEACH Act in 2000, it took an important step towards keeping Americans, of which a large majority are ill-prepared children, away from polluted beaches. As a proud Californian, I understand how critical clean and…

I commend her consideration of this very pressing matter. Since at least 2002, we've known that a wide variety of chemicals, including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and others such as fire retardants, are ending up in our…

Senator Clinton has a right to stay in the race. But, eventually, we don't want to go into the Democratic Convention bloodied.

Well, I'm not going to get in the gutter like that. And that's typical of many of the people around Senator Clinton. They think they have a sense of entitlement to the presidency.

I think that Senator Clinton has a -- she has a right to stay in the race. But I think, eventually, we don't want to go into the Democratic Convention bloodied and negative. And we want to go in unified, because Senator McCain is going to…

It's time, however, for Democrats to stop fighting amongst ourselves and prepare for the tough fight we will have against John McCain in the fall.

You are a once-in-a-lifetime leader. You will make every American proud to be an American. Barack Obama will be a great and historic president who can bring us the change we so desperately need.

I rise today to honor the newly elected Speaker of the California State Assembly, the Honorable Karen Bass. It is with great pleasure that I applaud her accomplishments and wish her future much success. At the end of this legislative year…

You know, you can have all of these issues and these programs. Unless the Congress and the president deal with this, states like mine, local police chiefs, local jurisdictions cannot handle what is a national problem.

What I think will work is more Border Patrol agents, double the number; more technology at the border to detect, maybe, a nuclear material.

A fence is not going to work. Fences have not worked. The Berlin Wall, the Great Wall of China. When people are desperate, they're going to cross that fence.

You can't have sensible immigration policy unless you have stronger border security; that I agree with. But a legalization plan for the 12 million that are already here. What are you going to do, deport 12 million people?

It's got to be a federal solution. It's got to be the Congress and the President acting, and they have failed to act, miserably.

The Congress talks good, but they don't do anything.

I am ending my campaign for president of the United States.

I hope you -- you make this a wide-open race and give those of us that just happened to be qualified... and those of us that can change this country a chance. That's all I ask.

The central message of my campaign is that we need somebody that can bring the country together. And, all my life, in my career, I have brought countries together. I have brought people together.

We also have to make sure that China trades on an equitable basis with the United States. We ought to ban all these toys they are bringing in. We ought to ban some of the contaminated food they're bringing in.

What I like best about Iowans is you like underdogs and you like to shake things up. You don't like the national media and the smarty pants telling you who's going to be the next president.

I would end the war.

Health care is a human right.

I believe universal health care is a human right for every American.

We need to create a more sustainable, more innovative economy.

Part of what makes this Nation respected is our ability to acknowledge history, both good and bad, and make the conscious effort to not repeat those same mistakes. Make no mistake about it. The noose is an ugly symbol, and it is a painful…