08/27/2006
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"It's a magnificent home, and it's the people's house."
"I'm confident we'll be able to work with them as time goes on."
"Our hearts go out and our prayers go out to the parents and the teachers and the children whose lives have been completely turned upside down right now."
"I hereby delegate to the Secretary of Defense the authority vested in me under section 1307 of the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001."