[At the convention itself, Jackie was moved by the famous film clip of a starry-eyed, sixteen-year-old Bill Clinton shaking hands with John F. Kennedy in the Rose Garden Jackie had created.] I think, ... that established an emotional link for her. |
[Former Chief Justice Earl] Warren understood the impact of separate but equal on generations of both white and black children. That's what a chief justice does, ... Roberts has given nothing but bloodless answers. |
[O'Neill] has now revealed what many have long suspected, ... Despite protestations to the contrary, the president and his senior aides began the march to war in Iraq in the earliest days of the administration. |
150,000 American troops are bogged down in a quagmire in Iraq because the Bush administration misrepresented and distorted the intelligence to justify a war that America never should have fought. |
a campaign-like attempt to rebuild his own credibility by tearing down those who seek the truth about the clear manipulation of intelligence. |
a positive step long awaited by many of us in Congress. |
All Americans wanted fairness and they got it this evening. |
All of those are provisions that this administration has attempted to undermine over a long period of time. They have tonight accepted all of those provisions, |
As to what I think about Cardinal Law's tenure and service, this must be private between the cardinal and me, |
basically the same kind of rhetoric we've heard in the past. |
Before the Senate acts on John Roberts' new nomination, we should know even more about his record, and we should know whom the president intends ... as a replacement Sandra Day O'Connor. |
But not every president, not every legislator, and not every judge agrees that the federal government has the power to address and try to remedy the twin national problems of poverty and access to equal opportunity, |
Do you believe that Congress has the power to pass laws aimed at eliminating discrimination in society, or do you believe that our hands are tied - that the elected representatives of the people of the us are without the power to pass laws aimed at righting wrongs, ending injustice, eliminating the inequalities that we have just witnessed so dramatically and tragically in New Orleans, |
Families across America know better, |
go down in history as the first president to try to write discrimination back into the Constitution. |