"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I join my colleague Mr. Rangel in thanking you for giving the junior members of this committee the glorious opportunity of sharing the pain of this inquiry. Mr. Chairman, you are a strong man, and it has not been easy but we have tried as best we can to give you as much assist...

"Of the impeachment process, it was Woodrow Wilson who said that 'Nothing short of the grossest offenses against the plain law of the land will suffice to give them speed and effectiveness. Indignation so great as to overgrow party interest may secure a conviction; but nothing else can.' Common sense would be revolt...

"Beginning shortly after the Watergate break-in and continuing to the present time, the President has engaged in a series of public statements and actions designed to thwart the lawful investigation by government prosecutors. Moreover, the President has made public announcements and assertions bearing on the Waterga...

"Thank you and good evening. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasn't been provided with a script. As a matter of fact, I have been permitted to choose my own words and discuss my own ideas regarding the choice that we face in the next few weeks. I have spent most of...

"But they've been a little more explicit in the past and among themselves; and all of the things I now will quote have appeared in print. These are not Republican accusations. For example, they have voices that say, 'The cold war will end through our acceptance of a not undemocratic socialism.' Another voice says, '...

"Private property rights [are] so diluted that public interest is almost anything a few government planners decide it should be. In a program that takes from the needy and gives to the greedy, we see such spectacles as in Cleveland, Ohio, a million-and-a-half-dollar building completed only three years ago must be de...

"But seriously, what are we doing to those we seek to help? Not too long ago, a judge called me here in Los Angeles. He told me of a young woman who'd come before him for a divorce. She had six children, was pregnant with her seventh. Under his questioning, she revealed her husband was a laborer earning 250 dollars ...

"I think we're for an international organization, where the nations of the world can seek peace. But I think we're against subordinating American interests to an organization that has become so structurally unsound that today you can muster a two-thirds vote on the floor of the General Assembly among nations that re...

"Our natural, unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment. Our Democratic opponents seem unwilling to debate these issues. They want to make you and I believe that this is a contest betwee...

"There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace -- and you can have it in the next second -- surrender. Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement...

"Members of the General Assembly: When Secretary General Hammarskjold's invitation to address this General Assembly reached me in Bermuda, I was just beginning a series of conferences with the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Great Britain and of France. Our subject was some of the problems that beset our wo...

"Today, the United States stockpile of atomic weapons, which, of course, increases daily, exceeds by many times the total [explosive] equivalent of the total of all bombs and all shells that came from every plane and every gun in every theatre of war in all the years of World War II. A single air group, whether aflo...

"Could anyone wish his name to be coupled by history with such human degradation and destruction? Occasional pages of history do record the faces of the 'great destroyers,' but the whole book of history reveals mankind's never-ending quest for peace and mankind's God-given capacity to build. It is with the book of h...

"They speak more loudly than promises or protestations of peaceful intent. But I do not wish to rest either upon the reiteration of past proposals or the restatement of past deeds. The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored. There is at least o...

"Experts would be mobilized to apply atomic energy to the needs of agriculture, medicine, and other peaceful activities. A special purpose would be to provide abundant electrical energy in the power-starved areas of the world. Thus the contributing Powers would be dedicating some of their strength to serve the needs...

"President Anderson, members of the faculty, board of trustees, distinguished guests, my old colleague, Senator Bob Byrd, who has earned his degree through many years of attending night law school, while I am earning mine in the next 30 minutes, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen: It is with great pride that...

"And every graduate of this school, every thoughtful citizen who despairs of war and wishes to bring peace, should begin by looking inward, by examining his own attitude towards the possibilities of peace, towards the Soviet Union, towards the course of the cold war and towards freedom and peace here at home. First ...

"As Americans, we find communism profoundly repugnant as a negation of personal freedom and dignity. But we can still hail the Russian people for their many achievements in science and space, in economic and industrial growth, in culture, in acts of courage. Among the many traits the peoples of our two countries hav...

"We are unwilling to impose our system on any unwilling people, but we are willing and able to engage in peaceful competition with any people on earth. Meanwhile, we seek to strengthen the United Nations, to help solve its financial problems, to make it a more effective instrument for peace, to develop it into a gen...

"Surely this goal is sufficiently important to require our steady pursuit, yielding neither to the temptation to give up the whole effort nor the temptation to give up our insistence on vital and responsible safeguards. I'm taking this opportunity, therefore, to announce two important decisions in this regard. First...

"Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Buenas noches, mis amigos. I'm delighted to be here with you this evening, because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know what a real Texas accent sounds like. Twelve years ago Barbara Jordan, anoth...

"They've told farmers that they were selfish, that they would drive up food prices if they asked the government to intervene on behalf of the family farm, and we watched farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong! They told working mothers it's all their fault -- th...

"And for eight straight years George Bush hasn't displayed the slightest interest in anything we care about. And now that he's after a job that he can't get appointed to, he's like Columbus discovering America. He's found child care. He's found education. Poor George. He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot...

"Behind his calm there's an impatience to unify this country and to get on with the future. His instincts are deeply American. They're tough and they're generous. And personally, I have to tell you that I have never met a man who had a more remarkable sense about what is really important in life. And then there's my...

"Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen of the Convention, my fellow citizens: I accept your nomination and your program. I should have preferred to hear those words uttered by a stronger, a wiser, a better man than myself. But after listening to the President's speech, I even feel better about myself. None of you, my ...

"Some will call us appeasers; others will say that we are the war Party. Some will say we are reactionary; others will say that we stand for socialism. There will be inevitable -- the inevitable cries of 'throw the rascals out,' 'it's time for a change,' and so on and so on. We'll hear all those things and many mor...

"Let's tell them that the victory to be won in the twentieth century, this portal to the Golden Age, mocks the pretensions of individual acumen and ingenuity, for it is a citadel guarded by thick walls of ignorance and of mistrust which do not fall before the trumpets' blast or the politicians' imprecations or even ...

"Mr. President, fellow delegates: The long and meticulous study and debate of which this Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the product means that it reflects the composite views of the many men and governments who have contributed to its formulation. Not every man nor every government can have what he wants i...

"It would convert the Declaration into a document stating obligations on states, thereby changing completely its character as a statement of principles to serve as a common standard of achievement for the members of the United Nations. The Soviet proposal for deferring consideration of the Declaration to the 4th ses...

"This Universal Declaration of Human Rights may well become the international Magna Carta of all men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the General Assembly will be an event comparable to the proclamation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man by the French people in 1789, the adoption of the Bill of Rights by...

"A day will come in the future when our children and grandchildren will look back and they will ask one of two questions. Either they will ask what in Gods name were they doing in 2007? Didn't they see what the scientists were warning? Or they may look back and say instead: How did they find the uncommon moral coura...

"Three thousand miles from home, an American army is fighting for you. Everything you hold worthwhile is at stake. Only the hardest blows can win against the enemy we are fighting. Invoking the spirit of our forefathers, the army asks your unshrinking support, to the end that the high ideals for which America stands...

"At long last I am able to say a few words of my own. I have never wanted to withhold anything, but until now it has not been constitutionally possible for me to speak. A few hours ago I discharged my last duty as King and Emperor, and now that I have been succeeded by my brother, the Duke of York, my first words mu...

"This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine. Some of you, perhaps, have already heard what it contains. But i would just like to read it to you. We, the German F?hrer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have ...

"To me the Flag has been more than just merely an inspiration. Ever since my first game in Eau Claire in the Northern League in 1952, I have been aiming at the Flag in more ways than one."

"I have asked for this radio and television time tonight for the purpose of announcing that we today have concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia. The following statement is being issued at this moment in Washington and Hanoi: At 12:30 Paris time today [Tues...

"Just two hours ago, allied air forces began an attack on military targets in Iraq and Kuwait. These attacks continue as I speak. Ground forces are not engaged. This conflict started August 2nd when the dictator of Iraq invaded a small and helpless neighbor. Kuwait -- a member of the Arab League and a member of the ...

"My late father used to say, 'Watch what they do, not what they say' and that 'actions speak louder than words.' When it came time to stand up against the oil companies, to stand against Dick Cheney's energy bill my opponent voted for it and I voted against it."

"We have to know exactly where people stand, not what somebody says, but what they've actually done and what they say they will do. That's why I want you to approach this like a hiring decision. If you were to hire a surgeon to perform an operation on someone that you were close to, you would want to know: what's ...

"We have a war to end in Iraq and a war to win in Afghanistan."

"It's a tough time for our economy. Across our country many Americans are understandably anxious about issues affecting their pocket book. From gas and food prices to mortgage and tuition bills. They are looking to their elected leader of congress for action. Unfortunately, on many of these issues all they're ge...

"Americans should not have to wait any longer for their elected officials to pass legislation to help more families stay in their homes."

"Some people counted me out and said to drop out, but the American people don't quit and they deserve a president that doesn't quit either."

"It doesn't matter whether it's Lincoln/Douglas, standing, sitting, in, ah, what language it's in, what, ah, it does, it does not matter. We want to use this time in this way and after 21 debates I think the American people have seen quite a few."

"I know that the American worker is the best worker in the world. We are the most productive workers. Nobody works harder. We have fewer vacation days. We have fewer sick leave days. We work. That's what we do. So we are going to start having our government support you instead of undercutting you."

"I think our party is very unified, but I think that with his help and a lot of other people, we've got to energize our party more. And, I think one of the aspects that dispirited our party that dispirited our base was the spent. So, we've got to assure people that we will be careful stewards of their tax dollars ...

"Philosophically, I have set a goal that healthcare is available and affordable to every single American-affordable and available. I want education to be affordable and available to every American. I want housing to be affordable and available to every American, but I do not mandate that every American have educat...

"My approach to transforming healthcare is to put families in charge. I believe Americans want to be part of a system that offers better care at lower costs for all Americans and that respects their individual dignity. We must reform the healthcare system to make it responsive to the needs of American families--no...

"I can understand why the Americans when viewing these kinds of comments are angry and upset just like they viewed Senator Obama's statements about why people turn to their faith and their values."

"All it was was a bunch of rants that aren't round in truth and I can't construct something positive out of that."

"I did not view the initial round of sound bites that triggered this controversy as an attack on the black church. I viewed it as a simplification of who he was -- a caricature of who he was. And, you know, more than anything something that peaked a lot of political interest. I didn't see it as an attack on the b...

"It is antithetical to our campaign, it is antithetical to what I am about, it is not what I think America stands for, and I want to be very clear that, moving forward, Reverend Wright does not speak for me. He does not speak for our campaign. I can not prevent him from continuing to make these outrageous remarks."

"I want to--I'm going to appoint the best people to the federal government regardless of party and there will probably be some republicans and some independents who are appointed in my administration so that they can see? the country can see, you know what this guy's just looking to solve problems.

"This is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright. It has nothing to do with Senator Obama. It is an attack on the black church launched by people who know nothing about the African American religious tradition. And, why am I speaking out now. In our community we have something called playing the dozens. If you think I...

"Above all else, our people desire, and are determined to work for, peace on earth -- a just and lasting peace -- based on genuine agreement freely arrived at by equals."

"Since we have come so far, whom shall be rash enough to set limits on our future progress? Who shall say that since we have gone so far, we can go no farther? Who shall say that the American dream is ended? For myself, I believe that all we have done upon this continent is but a prelude to a future in which we shal...

"Senator Kennedy has said tonight again what he has said several times in the course of these debates and in the campaign: that America is standing still. America is not standing still; it has not been standing still. Anybody that says America has been standing still for the last 7? years hasn't been traveling in Am...

"Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger. We know we share this pain with all of the people of our country. This is truly a national loss."

"We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness."

"See, you can be anything you want to be."

"Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in, and when you stumble keep faith, and when your'e knocked down get right back up, and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on."

"The changes we are working for are changes we can only accomplish together."

"Your'e the nurse on the second shift, the worker on the line, the waitress on her feet, the small business owner, the farmer, the teacher, the miner, the trucker, the soldier, the veteran, the student, the hard working men and women who don't always make the headlines but have always written America's story."

"If we in Congress don't end this war before January 2009, as President, I will!"

"'We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.' Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy."

"I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. I've gone to some of...

"But I have asserted a firm conviction - a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people - that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice, we have no choice if we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union."

"This was the moment when we tore down barriers that have divided us for too long - when we rallied people of all parties and ages to a common cause; when we finally gave Americans who'd never participated in politics a reason to stand up and to do so."

"Hope-is what led me here today - with a father from Kenya; a mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America."

"I am a better candidate for having had the honor to compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton."

"You know in your hearts that at this moment ? a moment that will define a generation ? we cannot afford to keep doing what we've been doing. We owe our children a better future. We owe our country a better future."

"The other side will come here in September and offer a very different set of policies and positions, and that is a good thing - that is a debate I look forward to."

"What you don't deserve is another election that's governed by fear, and innuendo, and division."

"We may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are always Americans first."

"Americans are a decent, generous, compassionate people, united by common challenges and common hopes. And every so often, there are moments which call on that fundamental goodness to make this country great again."

"And Sharpton and I, uh have the same views you know what I mean, he just goes one road and I go the other but all roads lead to freedom."

"We have raised money from a million donors - people just like you who have said, 'we can bring this country together. We can push against the special interests that dominate Washington.'"

"When I go to the White House, I'm going to be answerable to you, I'm not going to be answerable to a bunch of fat cat donors."

"All of us have a stake in this government. All of us have responsibilities. All of us have to step up to the plate."

"There were people who said, 'it can't be done!' And yet it was."

"We think that we can create a country where everybody's got a shot, where every child can dream, where everybody can apply themselves and work hard and take responsibility and arrive at the American Dream."

"We can do better than that! That's not a democratic agenda or a republican agenda, that's an American agenda!"

"And Sharpton and I, uh have the same views you know what I mean, he just goes one road and I go the other but all roads lead to freedom."

"All the evidence shows that she is by far more likely to win in November."

"You should base your decisions on facts and not ideology, and so, even if I am predisposed to a certain set of policies, I am going to want to see what is going on at the moment and ask a wide range of viewpoints."

"Nuclear has got to be accelerated. We can find a way to reprocess or store spent nuclear fuel."

"If we can get that battery that takes a car, an automobile, 200 miles before you have to plug it in - and then for only a couple hours - Americans would go for them."

"Unilaterally renegotiating any agreement with another sovereign nation is a serious threat to the entire fabric of international relation."

"I'm gonna have a program for education and retraining of workers that works."

"When you look around, wouldn't you consider it a privilege to associate yourself with such a fine looking men in uniform at this ballpark today?"

"You got a long way to go to be as good as your dad."

"There's no way Alex Auld was gonna be on this team this year unless he flew to France during the summer and bathed in the holy waters of Lourdes."

"We're at a point where I'm getting the fuck outta here. I mean if you're not going to cover Greg Graham if you're just gonna let him drive by ya, if the rest of you are gonna let him catch the ball outside the 3 second line and drive all the way in here without one guy challengin him, then I'm leavin and you guys w...

"I've admired her as a leader, I've learned from her as a candidate."

"We're going to deliver the American Dream in every corner of every state of this great nation that we love."

"Women can do anything that the boys can do! And do it better! And do it in heels!"

"We will recruit an army of new teachers and give them more pay and give them more support."

"I think race always, still in this country, it's always on the table."

"I felt that, if it was that important to the American people and there was a discussion, I said OK, I will. I mean, sure I said no, but American people said, you know, 'We really are -- we really think we should see.' And I said, okay."

"And he has proven to be an attraction in politics."

"Now we've learned to accept each other instinctively."

"We just you know, we argue a lot, we fight a lot but in the end you know what what's really what really is a key feature is that we must come out with some product."

"Mind you but I'm not like that. I like to do it all myself anyway."

"I have lived a full life and if I'm dead tomorrow... I don't give a damn."

"Every now and again I pinch myself thinking, am I actually doing this?"

"And so we look away."

"Maybe you're just a person who's extremely frightened or has some, has an anxiety disorder, maybe you're on some medication for that, I don't know, there could be another issue that I'm not aware of."

"I think Americans are tired of the ways presidential campaigns have been run in the past. All the gimmicks, the phony sound bites and photo-ops, campaigns that always seem to be more about the candidates' interests than the public."

"But if we're going to lead, we have to begin by reforming the tenor of political discussion in our campaigns. Only then, will the American people trust that we can reform a government, that as you know, has lost its ability to do so. I hope that Senator Obama, will accept my invitation."

"A job is more than just a job. It's self respect. It's all of the good things that go along with it. So we want to give them another opportunity. So prosperity is important."

"All I wanted to do was give working Americans a little relief."

"Under Senator Obama's tax plan, Americans of every background would see their taxes rise."

"How long are we going to let drug companies, insurance companies and their lobbyists run this country? America doesn't belong to them. America belongs to us."

"So now what are we going to do? We're now going to have the courts flooded with so-called, quote, 'habeas corpus' suits against the government whether it be about the diet, whether it be about the reading material. And we are going to be bollixed up in a way that is terribly unfortunate because we need to go ahead ...

"I think the United States Supreme Court is supposed to act not on their views of the performance of an administration. But on the most important issues affecting, or how to implement best, the Constitution of the United States."

"When Senator Obama talks about raising income tax rates on those making over 250,000 dollars, that includes these businesses as well. He also proposes increases in dividend and capital gains taxes. Under Senator Obama's tax plan, Americans of every background would see their taxes rise."

"With respect to the Bismarck property, which was a loan of less than $100,000, that I actually paid above market rates."

"In the coming weeks and beginning tomorrow, I'll be talking to the American people about America's energy crisis. Americans want to understand better why they're experiencing such difficulties and why the rising costs of gasoline in America is causing them, particularly Americans on fixed income, to endure very sig...

"And I will continue to advocate the path to energy independence."

"Ahh ahh."

"Of course I'm old, but this is another classic Shaquille O'Neal quote. I'm like toilet paper, toothpaste and certain amenities. I'm proven to be good. Now I have the chance to get a house on the water, and walk naked on the beach. Remember, if you take them pictures I get twenty percent. The people that know me, ...

"This is another classic Shaquille O'Neal quote. I'm like toilet paper, toothpaste, and certain amenities. I'm proven to be good."

"This is the Amare Stoudemire Project for me."

"America needs change more than ever. After 8 years of lost jobs and lower wages, we need change. After 8 years of incompetence, neglect and failure, we need change. After 8 years in which our Constitution has been dishonored and disrespected, we need change. After 8 years of the worst, most serious foreign polic...

"We would know that change was on the way, if that young leader reached out not only to the supporters of the other candidates in his party, but also beyond partisan lines to Republicans and Independents, and said to us all 'America, our time has come.'"

"But answer it!"