From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colorful past and its future. |
going to take all assets, both civilian and military, to help protect people. |
He had a difficult time understanding the enormity of the task before us. |
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, |