You hear people talking about an appetite for jazz. I am hearing it from the senior population and the student population. This is an opportunity to really see what the appetite is.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

This is not a subject that we ought to be talking about daily in regards to a confirmation hearing. If anything, it ought to be talked about in executive session. But it's not, it's out, and so there you have it.

[Some lawmakers who did not take part in the hearing agree.] It's all about making speeches and issuing talking points, ... No tax increase will get out of this Congress.

We're talking about a significant and potentially vulnerable population in IDP [internally displaced persons] settings.

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing,/ People writing songs that voices never shared.