His words were offensive to those who believe in freedom and equality in America, |
How can John Ashcroft enforce laws he has spent his entire public career fighting? |
I ... welcome our new president elect in a most heartfelt and sincere way, ... We will wipe the slate clean, begin anew with recognition of many challenges ahead. Bipartisan work is ahead. |
I acknowledged that concern, and it is for that reason that the Intelligence Committee is going to begin this effort, trying to limit the scope and the overall review of what happened, |
I am absolutely shocked to read in the paper this morning the terrorists just got their visas yesterday. I, for the life of me, can't understand how something like that can happen, |
I am here to announce today with great pride and great enthusiasm that I will do all I can in the next two years to make this man the next president of the United States, |
I am pleased that Secretary Thompson has acknowledged the growing scandal over the Medicare drug bill and has pledged an independent inquiry into the misconduct, |
I asked directly if we could delay this so we could depoliticize it. I said: 'Mr. President, I know this is urgent, but why the rush? Why do we have to do this now?' He looked at Cheney and he looked at me, and there was a half-smile on his face. And he said: 'We just have to do this now.' |
I asked President Clinton to give us his observations about how we might work more closely together, and also as to how we ought to look at our own responsibilities as we see them in creating our agenda this year, ... How we articulate them and how we mesh that agenda with our presidential candidate will be the topic for conversation with President Clinton. |
I believe all options ought to be on the table, |
I believe he would have been a great United States senator, just as he was a great governor, |
I believe him, period. |
I believe that the leadership in the Senate needs to know what contingency plans there are in case of an emergency. I don't think that is too much to ask. I feel as a result of the briefing I was given today, I now know. I will leave it at that, |
I can't believe that anybody would seriously propose that we trade in death, |
I can't imagine that we would pass any bill that would tolerate slipping back into a level of intolerance that would be acceptable in today's society, |