It's a great day for the attorneys general, ... Joe Camel and his ilk are now in intensive care and will be gone by April. Billboards will be coming down, and the real truth about tobacco will be available to every American.

The industry would not be at the table but for the unification of the attorneys general of this country, ... They would not allow the continued premature death of the adults in this country.

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other.