Hillary has demonstrated the equanimity, the prudence, the fortitude that have made her an exceptional leader and public servant.

I believe the FHA program poses significant risk to taxpayers and therefore requires diligent oversight by you, Mr. Secretary.

Hillary, you've dedicated your career to improving the lives of the least fortunate.

I know that you will be a brilliant Secretary of State.

I will sorely miss you. But, I wish you the best of luck.

I am confident that there is no one--no one who would better serve our country and the world as the next Secretary of State.

I want to thank you and Ranking Member Shelby for the honor of introducing Shaun Donovan.

After being relegated to the shadows for so long, housing is now front and center on our national agenda.

The world is yearning for strong, but consultative, American leadership in foreign policy.

Judge Sotomayor puts the rule of law above everything else. Judge Sotomayor has hewed carefully to the text of statutes, even when doing so results in rulings that go against so-called sympathetic litigants.

If her name were Caroline Jones, you're saying, she wouldn't have as good a chance.

Let's look at the facts, or as Pat Moynihan used to say, 'Everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.'

The overwhelming majority of predatory subprime loans were made by lenders and brokers who were not, I repeat were not, subject to CRA.

So people are entitled to their own opinions, as Pat Moynihan would say, but they are not entitled to their own facts.

There clearly are victims here, and there clearly are violations of the law without question.

At the risk of stating the obvious, it is worth noting that at the height of the housing boom, the President and his supporters in and out of Government did nothing to criticize or stop predatory lending.

We do not need an injection of presidential politics into this. These issues are complicated.

It appears his attorney general pick this week, Michael Mukasey, will be confirmed on late support from key Democrats.

I'm proud doing it. I spent some time doing it. I'm going to continue to do it. I think it's part of my job.

I'm proud to do it. I spent some time doing it. I'm going to continue to do it. I think it's part of my job.

It's the right type of earmark.

The DOJ has been 'virtually nonfunctional' for the last six months.

We should reverse the presumption of confirmation. We should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court except in extraordinary circumstances.

It's just like Iraq, only the president and the few advisers buried in a bunker think Gonzales should stay.

this is just another example of the White House not being up front about Rove's role.