His three proposals are innovative and bold. |
His words of working together as a team are very, very comforting, |
How can we expect them to make the grade? |
I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security. |
I believe we turned that corner several years ago. |
I feel a little bit like a reporter, ... I don't know if I'm filing my stories correctly or meeting the deadlines, but I feel like a reporter, trying to give people a sense of the magnitude of what we're facing. |
I have been with Michael Brown since the minute he landed in this center, ... and I have been telling him from the moment he arrived about the urgency of the situation. |
I have no hesitation to use force. I believe the threat is real, |
I intend to find out why the federal response, particularly the response of FEMA, was so incompetent and insulting to the people of our states. |
I know times are tough in Baghdad. But times are tough in the Gulf Coast, ... Our war is right here at home. Our war is right here in the Gulf Coast. |
I think the whole trickle-down is hogwash, ... We tried that and it didn't work. Americans want a president that will focus on tax relief as well as focusing on keeping America strong in the long run by keeping Social Security and education investments. |
I understand that the U.S. Forest Service had water-tanker aircraft available to help douse the fires raging on our riverfront, but FEMA has yet to accept the aid. When Amtrak offered trains to evacuate significant numbers of victims - far more efficiently than buses - FEMA again dragged its feet, |
I'd say that we have a general agreement that the military has a very strong role to play, but so do our governors and our local elected officials. We do have a democracy and a citizenship that has elected mayors, county commissioners and governors, particularly. I'm not sure the governors association or all the mayors in America would be willing to sort of step aside. |
I'm asking Congress, please don't send any more money to FEMA, |
If you have the votes to overturn (it) ... I would ask my colleagues to be brave enough to do it in public, ... in the middle of the night. |