Marty Meehan Quotes

Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.