As with Mrs. Jackson, the experience working on environmental issues with the Federal Government on behalf of California and the city of Los Angeles that Ms. Sutley will be able to bring to Washington will serve her, the President-elect…

We have the opportunity to do something about it, and some of us have actually called on the incoming Administration as we put together a recovery package.

I want you to know that I am going to make sure that he fulfills that commitment.

Our public diplomacy is at a low ebb, I think Secretary Rice has tried to do a good job in the last couple of years in terms of multilateralism.

One of the reasons I'm not running is that I wanted to devote my full time to these historic problems that we have.

The worst thing that we can have would be--something come out, say that we've got a conflict there.

I think the Obama policy--smart power--I was in Europe this last month, and they're all excited about our new President.

How we handle them over the next 2 years will have a great impact on the future of our country and the world.

I hope that because the cost of gasoline has gone down that we're all going to just sit back like we did in 1973 and just say, 'Everything's going to be fine,' because it's not going to be fine.

We have--if we can all work together on a bipartisan basis--an absolutely wonderful opportunity to really change the image of the United States of America.

If we don't get this done, and they do go under, I believe that we're going to have a deep recession, and, quite frankly, from what I can pick up, we may just go over the cliff.

We don't get this done, and they do go under, I believe that we are going to have a deep recession, and quite frankly from what I can pick up we may just go over the cliff.