and you're poor in this country, it's not an inconvenience. It's a death sentence.

It's not a 9-11, it's not a Katrina, it's an inconvenience.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

I just hope that the president and the Republican leaders distance themselves from this and find some way to be critical of those people who have been so insensitive to those veterans who found themselves in harm's way,

believe that our government has an obligation to take care of its people.

[Said Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California,] Mr. Rumsfeld has been engaged in a coverup from the start on this issue and continues to be so. ... If the president doesn't fire the secretary, if he doesn't resign, I think it's the responsibility of this Congress to file articles of impeachment and force him to leave office.