[As House G.O.P. leaders rallied to support his re-election, Democrats circled ravenously. Said David Bonior, Democratic whip and the Speaker's nemesis:] Mr. Gingrich engaged in a pattern of tax fraud, lies and cover-up in paving his road to the second highest office of this land. He is not worthy of that office. ... The Gingrich case does not end here. |
[Some Democrats saw sinister motives.] Mr. Dole works for a large lobbying firm with interests before Congress, ... Isn't that a conflict of interest? |
America should not give up the leverage to bring about democratic reforms, |
But they're hanging in there because they know with those bad hips and arms, they will need a patients' bill of rights to be better, |
China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade, ... They don't have any compliance or enforcement. |
Folks think it's wrong, but they think it's an isolated incident. They don't understand that it's often. |
I advised him that the president needs to make clear to the American people, in a way that he did to us today, his contrition, his sorrow for his actions, and he needs to do that not just once, he needs to understand that this is a process that is ongoing, that this issue will be raised time and again throughout the weeks, perhaps even months, ... He needs to address it on a continual basis with the kind of concern that he expressed to us today but he also needs to get to the issues that he was elected to address in this country. |
I cannot get John Edwards and John Kerry -- maybe they ought to meld here. And I think maybe they might at some point in this campaign. |
I think the timing is just atrocious on the part of the Republicans on this issue, ... We need not have this on the floor while the peace process is in a very critical stage. |
I think they're struggling, |
I think what we have here is a situation in which the president's personal behavior, inappropriate and offensive as it is, is being weighed by the American people and by members of Congress with his job performance as president of the United States, ... He has done a good job for this country. |
I understand that NASA reported that there's new evidence of water on Mars, ... I'm here to report that we still don't have any evidence of affordable gasoline in Michigan. |
If the record deficits are what winning looks like, I'd sure like to know their definition of losing, |
In the final analysis we believe that freedom and democracy are not byproducts for economic prosperity, they are conditions for it, ... This is not the time to vote. This is not the time to give up our leverage once and for all. |
It was very skillful how he did that. There was no support for doing away with the prevailing wage. He knew there were 30 or 40 Republicans who supported [him], and he put the pressure on them to pressure the president so we could get this done. |