Marshall Sanford

If you come into connection with a soul that touches yours in a way that no one's ever has, even if it's a place you can't go, this notion of knowing that you know, for me, became very important.

Have I done stupid? I have. You know, you meet someone. You dance with them. You go to a place where you probably shouldn't have gone.

Honestly, I think he could go down in the ugliest, messiest way.

More emotional confession today from South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who tells the Associated Press, he, quote, 'crossed the line' with a handful of women other than his Argentine mistress over the years but says he never had sex…

I let down people that I represent across this state.

The issue of lying is probably the biggest harm, if you will, to the system of democratic government, representative government because it undermines trust. And if you undermine trust in our system, you undermine everything.

I let them down by creating fiction with regard to where I was going which means that I had then in turn given as much as they relied on that information let down people that I represent across this state.

But, again, for all of us, the question is, it is great to have Republican rallies, but the real challenge and opportunity is, we have got to grow the party beyond just the base if we are going to be successful.

He is not the only one to blame. I want -- I don't want to suggest that. In as much as the presidency, if you're the party in power, is the sort of titular head of the Republican Party, certainly, some of the buck stops there.

It takes time to damage a brand. It takes even longer to rebuild it.

It's been something that would have made, among other folks, my dad proud.

My question would be on some of the things that the gentleman mentioned. On the New York Stock Exchange we find Boise Cascade and International Paper and Westvaco. And given the fact that these are multimillion-dollar corporations, and…

I would view this as more of a freeze at last year's level, rather than a cut from a proposed increase. Secondly, I would make the point that if there is anything arbitrary about what is in here, it is the degree of correlation between not…

I just I want to make very clear that this amendment simply gets at the overall funding category, the 24 percent increase in funding. It in no way goes specifically after your very worthy research project.

What is interesting is, I leave in place $60 million for special research grants. All this amendment goes after is the increase of $14 million, so Congress would very much be involved in the process of making special research grants.

On that point, I fully recognize the fact that while this particular Member may well do that with farmers from anywhere across the Nation, as a whole, at the end of the day, what comes out of this process is not that happening. In fact…

I guess my only question about this is those very needs that the gentlewoman is talking about could be addressed through a competitive basis. My problem with the special grants is that they are on a noncompetitive basis so that many States…

I think that the problem of this in this case, in the story that I just read, we have an embittered former wife accusing a person of being a terrorist and, as a result, through no action of his own, he is incarcerated for 19 months of his…

I would not dispute any of the things about this program of having great value to local law enforcement. The simple question I would ask is one of priorities. It is one that I am trying to teach my young boys, and that is right now given…

I think we could debate whether or not an individual would be gaming the system based on what the Secretary eventually came out in terms of regulation behind this bill. But I think there is a larger issue here which is quite simple and…

I am a conservative. I fall into that first camp, and if someone views the government as coercive, it seems to me logical to say that they would want to limit one's ability to control the leaders of government that would affect its ability…

Love was the easiest word to describe him, and I suppose what I will most miss.

In short, he didn't spend his time talking about his faith, he lived it.

If I had ever found myself in real trouble with the option of only one call, it would have been to Gordon.

Gordon Bynum was the living definition of the word, 'friend.'