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    After Roberts explained his views on privacy and his legal philosophy, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said, You've told me nothing, Judge. ... we are rolling the dice with you.

    What they gain is not having to tell the American people the truth.

    By the end of '06 we're going to have a pretty clear picture of whether or not it's succeeding or failing, ... And success will be dependent upon a government that's representative and a capacity to govern in terms of security.

    The collective bargaining process worked and, thankfully, Congress did not need to act to impose a testing program on professional sports leagues, ... This is a great day for baseball. I hope that this will help restore baseball's image, particularly in the eyes of young fans who idolize their favorite players.

    This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.


    But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

    You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

    Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded.

    That's if we do it to you. Go ahead. Go ahead and continue not to answer.

    Now I hope our French and German and other allies step up to the ball and are as magnanimous in acknowledging what we have to do now as the president was.

    When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

    Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.

    The single most important thing we have to be doing now is make sure that training is on target and that they have the capacity to govern.

    It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

    In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

    ... We're either going to share the cost with everyone, including the wealthiest among us by foregoing the tax cuts for the wealthiest, or we're going to put all the burden on the middle class.... We don't have to go forward with further tax cuts for the wealthy. There's a 70 billion tax cut in this particular budget. Permanently eliminating the estate-tax cut is a trillion dollars over the next 10 years. Maybe we have to forgo those for the time being.

    This place just loves contrition, ... We all make mistakes.

    They're going to have to see more Sunnis brought into the constitution-writing if there's going to be any legitimacy at the end of the day, ... And I think we'll see that.

    still paying an awesome price for the initial failures on policy and refusal to change them of this administration, of going in with too little power and too little legitimacy.

    We have two national emergencies, ... One relates to our interest in Iraq and the other in the Gulf, and I don't think you can take from one to deal with the other.

    No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that, successes and failure, a realistic assessment of where we are and what the president plans to do about it.

    In Afghanistan, the war was prosecuted exceptionally well, but the follow-through commitment to Afghanistan's security and reconstruction has, in my judgment, fallen short, ... It would be a tragedy if we removed a tyrant in Iraq only to leave chaos in his wake.

    Whether we will have ever increasing protections for human liberty and dignity, or whether those protections will be diminished.

    Because our military power dwarfs that of other countries - we spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined - this Administration believes that alliances and international institutions are more of a burden than a benefit. They allow the Lilliputians to tie down Gulliver.

    The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

    Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

    Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

    The original power given to them was assuming that it would be used with discretion, ... Thirty thousand seems like an awful, awful stretch to me.

    No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

    the number of Iraqis prepared to take on the insurgency is somewhere between 4,000 and 18,000.

    You are one of the best witnesses, I think, that has come before this committee. You've convinced folks who share Senator Brownback's view that you're going to be just right for them and you've convinced folks that share Senator Kennedy's view that you're just right for them,

    The group also launched a 400,000 ad buy on Fox and CNN starting August 31 called Precedent, ... should not answer questions that force him to pre-judge cases.

    In my view, the public is served best by questions that initiate a dialogue with the nominee, not about how she will decide any specific case that may come before her, but about the spirit and the method she will bring to the task of judging,

    This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

    I'd expect the administration to detail what they think they've achieved, where they think they've fallen short, why they've fallen short and what help they need to, in fact, gain the initiative,


    I do not understand the lack of a sense of urgency.

    Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

    I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.

    If it succeeds, the political process, I predict you'll see a drawdown of American forces by this time next year.

    I think if I had this evidence before a jury, I could get a conviction,

    Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

    The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.

    You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

    They still have no concrete plan as to how we're going to proceed other than hope and pray that this constitution is accepted by the Iraqi people, which seems to me like a tough bet.

    less concerned about an outbreak of civil war than I am about the outbreak of civil chaos.

    You not only have a right to choose what you will answer and not answer, but in my view, you should not answer.

    We have repeatedly missed the deadlines for increasing power and oil production, ... As temperatures approach 120 degrees in the third summer since Saddam's statue came down, Iraqis still have only about eight hours a day of electricity and almost half do not have regular access to clean water.

    The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

    there will be no legitimacy to the constitution.


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