I think the Democrats are going to have to think long and hard, as the hearings progress, about whether we should support him.

We’ve not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can’t trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I’m much more conservative with...

anti-women, anti-labor and anti-teachers and nurses.

I think that would be very presumptuous of me to do, since I have not had one vote yet in the Democratic primaries, … I can tell you flat-out that I did not ask him...

But I think there are lot of poor people who fly that flag because the Republicans have been dividing us by race since 1968 with their Southern race strategy.

There have been a lot of justifications for attacking Iraq. Most of them have turned out not to be true, … The argument is: Did the capture of Saddam Hussein and the attack on Iraq...

in February before I got here.

They are the party of selfishness and self-absorption.

While he’s asking ordinary Americans to do more, he ought to show some real leadership and call on his friends in Big Oil to join in the sacrifice and stop gouging American families at the...

We get along well. He gave me some good advice. I gave him some advice on domestic policy areas,

What we’re going to do is reach out to 2 million Americans and ask them for $100 each, because I think there are at lease 2 million who would give us or even borrow $100...

you cannot expect the Iraqis to think that they have their own government if we’re appointing their people. We need an election.

I wish the president had paid more attention to the history of Iraq before we had gotten in there. The idea that we’re going to win this war is just plain wrong.

One of the implications of this increased debt is that increasingly, foreigners are financing this debt, putting the American economy in the hands of foreign debt holders, just like the ports deal would have put...

But mad cow disease is a serious concern that has been undersold by this administration and their industry allies.

The president didn’t even tell the truth in his speech, … He said that the Senate had the same intelligence that everybody else did. That was not true. He withheld some intelligence.

The country deserves to know — and the president needs to answer — why the American people were presented with misleading or manufactured intelligence as to why going to war with Iraq was necessary.

I think this is the fourth attempt to undermine democracy in this country by the right wing of the Republican Party since the 2000 elections,

Karl Rove breached our national security for partisan gain and that is unpatriotic and wrong.

No, I wasn’t, John Edwards, because people who vote who fly the Confederate flag, I think they are wrong because I think the Confederate flag is a racist symbol,

Today, we heard him try to walk away from the USS Abraham Lincoln ‘end of major combat operations’ announcement, absurdly claiming that the White House was not responsible for the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner that decorated...

His whole campaign is based on the notion that ‘I can keep you safe, therefore, in times of difficulty in America, stick with me,’

Harry Truman was willing to do things that were extraordinarily unpopular because they were the right things to do,

You have the power. We’re going to make this country strong together. … We’re going to make this country fair again.

who is increasingly giving his presidential candidacy an anti-Washington cast, cranked up his rhetoric on Tuesday, saying that if he won, members of Congress were ‘going to be scurrying for shelter, just like a giant...

The Bush administration philosophy has become ‘borrow and spend’ and let our children and grandchildren pick up the pieces,

[ ‘ On Thursday, the field of candidates shrank to eight when former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun quit the race and threw her support to Dean. With Dean at her side, Braun told supporters that...

We’re certainly not taking the Hispanic vote for granted.

The Senate has a duty to fully and fairly judge Roberts’ record and qualifications, but how can it possibly do that when the White House has been sloppy or just plain uncooperative in providing information?

Each of their surprise disclosures has contained additional reasons for concern about whether Roberts would use his lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court to be an activist for an ideological agenda or an advocate for...

In 2006 it’s immigrants. That’s what their strategy is on the Republican side: divide people, scapegoat them, set them aside, point the finger at them. Well, that may be good for the Republican Party, but...

South Texas has been so good to the Democratic Party. I think it’s about time we were good to South Texas.

We don’t have a federal government that wants to help, so I’m glad you’re doing this. This is all we’ve got.

No, we did not,

If it took three weeks for them to get this information, then they’re not doing their job protecting the United States of America.

This is an administration that has a fundamental problem telling the truth.

Iran is a terrorist government. We cannot permit them to have nuclear weapons under any circumstances. The president has said, properly so, that no option can be taken off the table, and I think that...

This president cares more about corporations than he does about the people of the United States of America.. and we’re gonna change that.

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I’m doing is breaking into the country club.

I think cutting the payroll tax is not a bad idea. We will not touch Social Security.

We ought to go back to Bill Clinton’s taxes because most people in America would gladly pay the taxes we paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only we could have the same economy we...

If we get a little lucky, Tom DeLay will look at the next election from behind bars, … Then in 2006, we’re going to take back the House.

It’s worse than the television pictures.

When law enforcement and whistleblowers threaten their corrupt allies, they change the rules of the game.

But I’m not going to characterize what went on in those meetings, other than to say flatly I did not, and have not, offered anybody the vice presidency.

Maine folks are just like Vermont people — they’re very independent. And that’s a great place to start the turnaround,

the Republican Party and even my own party has simply moved too far to the right.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

explore strategic and financial alternatives.

We all want the president to succeed. But the president hasn’t succeeded. I think that is because he has a lack of vision and, frankly, he hasn’t been truthful with the American people.