Political Quotes

I want to thank you both, my friend and colleague Senator Blumenthal, and the other members of the Senate Commerce Committee for turning their attention today to the important issue of improving protections for cruise passengers.

Picking specific research projects or even scientific disciplines to be funded through a political process and favoring them at the expense of others is a mistake.

I have never deviated from that, and it all flowed very easily simply because of the moral compass that was working within me after I had finished my 2 years with VISTA.

Just as a follow-up to the question of funding which was addressed, CBO actually has come out with an estimate on what all of this would cost. It is not $20 billion; it is in the area of zero up to $10 billion over that period of 4 years.