There is no effort being made on the part of any Republican, that I'm aware of, that would allow us to do something constructive on estate tax relief today, ... Clearly they're not interested in an accomplishment. They're not interested in reducing the estate taxes of people. They're interested in playing to their base. |
There is no erosion of that support, ... There is extraordinary belief that the vice president and Senator Lieberman have conducted themselves in a way that makes us very proud. |
There is still improvement that I think can be made and as long as I think that there is a chance that we could make additional improvements, I want to try to do that. I think it is too early to try to give up on making the effort, |
There isn't anybody who can think on his feet better than Dick Durbin, ... he will be in the unique role ... to be the voice of our caucus and certainly the voice of the Senate Democratic leadership. |
There really is no more important issue Congress should be working on this year, and in this time of unprecedented economic growth there is no reason why we shouldn't be, |
There was a sense I had from the very beginning that this was in part politically motivated, and they were going to maximize the timing to affect those who were having some doubt about this right before the election, |
There's a little bit of chutzpah in there, and a whole lot of ambition. |
There's a recognition of the extraordinary vulnerability we see economically with all the airlines, |
There's a right way and a wrong way to cut taxes. The Republican tax cuts reward the few, our tax cuts invest in the future, |
There's no doubt that they are struggling. But there is equally no doubt that working together we can survive this and we can put them and all of them associated with air transportation infrastructure in a position of strength, |
There's nothing unusual about the way the votes are being counted in Florida right now. |
These are difficult issues, ... Economics has always separated our parties philosophically, and to overcome the philosophical differences is something that we are going to try and do. |
They (the Republicans) can't feel very good about prolonging this, given the results tonight, |
They are the victims of terrorists just as those who died on September 11, |
They don't want a $1.6 trillion dollar tax cut. Now they want a $3.2 trillion dollar tax cut. I don't know why they don't just give the entire federal budget away, |