[Boxer doesn't want to ruin surprises for her readers, but says she couldn't do some of the things Ellen did in the Supreme Court battle.] I wouldn't want to have to do it the way she did it, ... My world is the real world, her world is the fiction world. I wouldn't want to have what happens in the book happen in real life. |
[FEMA told her staff that this was] standard operation procedure, ... standard operating procedure is not what we should be following during this time of crisis. |
[Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, told a Washington news conference Wednesday,] We now have a Republican presidential ticket that's to the right of the gun lobby. ... most hostile to sensible gun laws of any ticket in history. |
A proposed rule on human pesticide testing that fails to protect children and families should be shelved immediately. A protective rule must be issued in its place, |
A Time to Run |
Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources. |
But it's hard to believe that Californians are going to go into a voting booth and say, 'I'm going to vote for Matt Fong because I am mad at Bill Clinton. |
can, and should, be paid for by freezing new tax cuts to the wealthy and redirecting billions of dollars currently being spent in Iraq. |
Clearly, he was wrong to have that relationship in the first place, ... right to take full responsibility. |
Days are dwindling until the end of this session, ... Your getting behind this effort would make an enormous difference. |
Dick Cheney is a nice man. He has a nice demeanor, and he's nice to talk to, and all that's very important, ... I want to see compassion. I don't see compassion in the voting record. |
During the war, he traveled to camps around the world to provide a healthy and good-natured distraction for American GI's because he had the greatest respect and support for their service, ... In turn, this country has the greatest respect for his service. |
Ellen is like me in the sense of her passion for the issues, ... But this is a woman who goes into the Senate kicking and screaming, she really doesn't want to do this at all. |
Even his own administration says if we do nothing -- which of course, we will do something just as we did when Ronald Reagan was president, and we fixed it in a bipartisan way very easily -- but even if we did nothing, it would still have enough money in there to pay everyone 70 to 80 percent of benefits. |
Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable. |