The president called this the largest reconstruction program in the history of the world, but when it comes to housing, the support is almost nonexistent, ... He's just handing out land.

If one hundred years from now history says, when America went over there and changed the world for Iraq, and now look at how successful they are, and it began with this moment; then it would have been worth it.

The world is your playground. Why aren't you playing?

I'm bewildered by what has gone on here.

The response of the federal government is bewildering and deplorable. We know how to deliver quality affordable housing in the United States -- we just need the will and leadership to do it.

[It is yet to be determined, for instance, just how much of a role the federal government will play in picking up the tab.] It depends on a threshold question: What are you going to rebuild? What is the federal responsibility for rebuilding a city, a metropolitan area or a region? This is where it gets really confused, ... Federalism is a messy business.