[A similar debate is taking place in the Senate, which on Wednesday held its own budget discussion.] The Republican budget is a thinly veiled assault on Medicare, ... It proposes to sacrifice the future of Medicare in order to finance a tax cut for the wealthy. |
[On the president's tax proposal, he argued that the president] wants to make the wealthy wealthier. ... It's been basically scraps for the investments in education and in healthcare. |
[Some Senate Democrats say Roberts should get tougher scrutiny now that he is being nominated for chief justice.] The chief justice is the most important judge in the country, with even more responsibility for the protection of the rights and freedoms of all Americans, ... Thus John Roberts bears a heavier burden when he comes before the Senate. |
[The confident, Harvard-trained lawyer who became wealthy arguing cases before the Supreme Court also declined to express regret for certain memos he wrote as a young, wise-cracking counsel to the Reagan administration. At one point, Kennedy told Roberts that his writings on voting rights lacked an appreciation for problems related to racial discrimination.] I'm deeply troubled by a narrow and cramped and perhaps even a mean-spirited view of the law that appears in some of your writings, ... you have not accurately represented my position. |
[The senior senator from Massachusetts was equally gracious.] I've enjoyed working with the president, ... I might say I might use those same words with regard to him, respectfully. |
A democratic party, a part of a democratic West, does not, should not and cannot have private armies and cannot be involved in criminality and violence, ... and this is, I think as the sisters have pointed out, the golden opportunity for them to indicate once and for all and finally that they are going to separate themselves from that type of support. |
a key element of a successful strategy to stabilize Iraq and withdraw American forces. |
a salute to bigotry. |
a victory for common sense. |
a war of choice. |
accepted who he was, but cared more about what he could and should become .... He had only just begun. There was in him a great promise of things to come. |
After all the buildup and the long wait, the American people had a right to expect a comprehensive plan. But all the administration released was a glossy brochure and a plan for a single agency, the Department of Health and Human Services. |
After so many years of false starts, our actions have finally matched our words. |
All of us deplore the acts of terrorism that we have seen in these last minutes, and our hearts reach out to all of those who have suffered, lost their lives or who are injured right now, and all of us reach out to the brave rescue workers who are attempting to help our fellow citizens. |
America will not be America until we free ourselves of discrimination and bigotry, |