I hope the members of this body who have politicized this issue by making false allegations of manipulation of intelligence would realize their allegations only serve to divide the American people and undermine critical American resolve to finish the important work we are about in Iraq,
There was some shocking poverty exposed in New Orleans and other places ... We need to recommit ourselves to making sure we are a society where everyone who's willing to work and get an education has the opportunity to do it.
It will not work to ignore them in the hope that the problem goes away on its own.
I have made a proposal, and others have made proposals, and we will work out the differences,
If you've got air conditioning, clean water, toilets that work where you are, don't come back to Beaumont,