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«Republicans claim they want to support civil rights. We want to give them ample opportunity to demonstrate that.»

«This is the toughest thing we've had to do since impeachment. It's really heavy lifting.»

«OK, we'll take the first step. This is as crucial as it gets.»

«Even with some of the more troublesome ? and potentially illegal ? details omitted, I still raised significant concern about these actions.»

«This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas -- where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens.»

«If the stories in the media over the past week are accurate, the president has exercised authority that I do not believe is granted to him in the Constitution, and that I know is not granted to him in the law that I helped negotiate with his counsel and that Congress approved in the days after September 11.»

«Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas -- where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the United States , potentially against American citizens . I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.»

«We just turned down $292 million for Indian health care in this country. We're told that we can't afford it, and we don't have the resources,»

«He's been the one who's said we want a kinder and gentler SEC, the opposite of what we should have had, ... We could do a lot better than Harvey Pitt in that position today.»

«We're still troubled by the CBO analysis that we're using Social Security trust funds, at least $19 billion,»