Bill Frist Quotes

"We're going to take a hard, hard look at our disaster response. We are here to work. We've got our sleeves rolled up, and we are ready to address it aggressively."

"We are committed to providing all of the relief and support necessary to get through this terrible and ongoing crisis,"

"Debate the nominee for five hours, debate the nominee for 50 hours. Vote for the nominee, vote against the nominee, ... But in the end, vote. Senators, colleagues, let's do our duty and vote."

"Today's verdict is a small but important piece of justice."

"We must boldly address the challenges of border security first."

"Stem cell research is promising, ... The president vigorously promotes adult and embryonic stem cell research, but he does it with an ethical and moral framework."

"The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous."

"It means from now on for the next year and a half, I can't trust Sen. Reid, ... and that's hard."

"a highly qualified nominee who is committed to upholding the Constitution and who believes in the limited role of a judge to interpret the law and not legislate from the bench."

"offset some of the unanticipated recent disaster spending."

"His passing marks a sad day for America, but it's also a day to reflect on our great fortune to have had William Rehnquist in the service of our nation."

"I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman."

"There is no serious question that perjury and obstruction of justice are high crimes and misdemeanors."

"Roberts has the skill, the mind, the intellect and the temperament to lead the Supreme Court for decades to come, ... The Senate will complete floor action on his nomination before the session begins."

"It is very important that the president thematically shows where we're going in terms of the vision and an agenda."

"has made an excellent choice; Mr. Roberts is one of the most well qualified candidates to come before the Senate."

"What will probably be most remarkable is this president's unprecedented commitment to combating global HIV/AIDS -- a little tiny virus that when I was in medical school didn't exist,"

"The complaints and questions have persisted, ... Because of these continuing questions, and looking ahead at my final years in the Senate and what might come next, I have for some time wanted to eliminate even the possibility of an appearance of a conflict by totally divesting of any HCA stock in my family's trust."

"We'll come together, and there will be compromise, but compromise that will be to the satisfaction of the majority of people in the House and the Senate."

"have no conviction, they have no principles, they have no ideas. If they want to get in the gutter, that's - that's I guess what they want to do."