"You hold the public's trust, and you are eroding that trust."
"America used to be called the Land of Opportunity, you know, where everybody had the opportunity to get a job."
"We all agree on early education and intervention, breaking the cycle."
"That is where we can make a difference, in those homes, in those children's lives."
"The only permanent solution to this is a job. That is it."
"I always believe there is a place where we can find agreement. It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or a Republican."
"I told him, well, I am going to make it my job when I get in Congress to put you out of business."
"Now who here on this panel can look at me with a straight face and tell me that that is the best way we can use our limited resources?"
"You can educate people from now until doomsday. You can get everybody a Ph.D. But if, when they get out of school, there is no job for them, you haven't really accomplished much."
"If we want to solve this problem, we have to get our economy growing again."
"I would like to discuss an issue that is of great importance to the Southeast: providing appropriate clarity for the nuclear production tax credit."