I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.