"You've got a Health and Human Service Secretary in Robert Kennedy who is on a destructive rampage, tearing apart institutional structures that have been in place to help us with the science and resear..."
"it's hard, in many ways, to see how we could do worse."
"Kennedy has exceeded my low expectations."
"That was one of those votes where I voted the way I thought was the right vote, but I couldn’t tell you with certainty that I was confident I was right."
"There’s a real abdication by Congress of its own authority."
"He doesn’t have a right to exceed constitutional authority."
"I acknowledge that he won and he’s got the right to use all the executive authority to pursue his policies. He doesn’t have a right to exceed constitutional authority."
"The building code is the next frontier after the zoning code."
"I have great respect for President Biden. He saved our country from a tyrant. He is a man of uncommon decency. He cares deeply about our democracy. He has been one of the best presidents of our time."
"We are going to have more of these in Vermont. We know that. We are going to have more of these in the Nation."
"It does not matter what kind of disaster it is or what State you are in--Hawaii, Texas, Mississippi or Alabama--it is devastating to our towns."
"My view is that FEMA is just to set up for that long-term, follow-through situation."