"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
"You have to practice your faith a certain way... this is fundamentally what is at stake here, the heart and soul of what America is about."
"Doesn't this just get, this ruling, get to the very heart, the very foundation of what America is about?"
"But never before in this country's history has a President made a recess appointment during a time when the Senate was not actually in recess."
"Even President Bush, who my friends on the other side of the aisle assailed for taking unilateral executive action, refused to provoke a constitutional crisis by making recess appointments while the S..."
"Congress should refuse to accept the legality of these appointments."
"the President is concentrating the power of appointment in the Executive Branch alone."
"the President by his own words has acknowledged that the reason he appointed these individuals had nothing to do with the only justification the Justice Department offered in support of his exercise o..."
"The President must think that the rules he and his Senate Democratic colleagues developed to hamstring President Bush do not apply to him."
"this is about employees, union members, not having their money taken from them and used against the very person they may want to see in office."
"But I didn't know. I didn't know."