Nobody mentioned the word resignation, nobody mentioned the word impeachment, ... This was a meeting for the president to express to us his sorrow, his concern, this was a person who felt very deeply about the pain he has caused. |
Now, whether there will be a vast majority of Democrats, I think, depends to a large extent on what happens with the specifics, |
So isn't it ironic that Newt Gingrich is attempting to put his ethic problems behind him with a plan that requires a whole new investigation by the ethics committee? |
The lawyers don't use the word 'lie.' But if someone, in the normal course of events...would have done what Newt Gingrich did to a congressional committee, they would go to jail for that. |
The speaker needs to step aside. |
There's a lot of bitterness over what happened. He needs to address that. He needs to dig deeper to understand that in order for him to really bind the wounds that are out there in the country, |
There's only one marriage (the bill) would strengthen, and that's the longstanding romance between the Republican leadership and those who are most well off in this country, ... two-fisted assault on the U.S. Treasury. |
They are flowing into the mainstream of where American politics and the American people are, ... Nobody wants to have high levels of arsenic in their drinking water. They understand that. They voted with us today to implement that. |
This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say 'Well, OK, we'll let you try one more time'. |
This House is out of touch. It is out of control. And it is so consumed that they have just denied us a chance to vote on the one option -- the one option -- that commands the support of the American people, and that is censure, |
This is a repeated pattern of abuse by the speaker over a period of years, and I think Mr. Forbes and other Republicans have sort of had it with this, ... Meet the Press. |
This is not the America that I spent 26 years fighting for as a US congressman. And it certainly is not the legacy I want to leave my grandchildren. |
This is the Bobby Knight of trade deals, ... You abuse and abuse and abuse, and we come back and say, 'Okay, you can do it one more time.' |
This trade agreement is the past masquerading for the future, |
Today this tree represents our hope. Even more than our faith, this small tree, (like) the democratic values that guided the first Congress to meet here, will continue to grow and to guide all the Congresses to come, ... And even though the wind may rustle its branches every so often, this tree, like our democracy itself, will only grow stronger over time. |