Tom Daschle
Tom Daschle
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Daschleis a policy advisor, lobbyist, former U.S. Senator from South Dakota, and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. He is a member of the Democratic Party...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 December 1947
opportunity work
So on all of those issues, there is a real opportunity for all of us to work together,
confidence economy ensure feeling security
The most important thing for us right now is to ensure that the country's security is back, ... Once that feeling of confidence is back, we think the economy will come back a lot in and of itself.
avoid face obviously perception trying
Obviously we are trying to avoid even the perception of partisanship, ... Face the Nation.
certainly dealing holding involves subject suspects
And it certainly involves dealing with holding certain suspects who may be the subject of investigative efforts.
commit continue effort gone pressure
It will be gone if we don't do something soon. We've got to act. We've got to commit resources, ... We've got to show leadership. We've got to continue the pressure and put the effort in place, or it's all gone.
close past time
It's way past time to close this gap,
america esteem holds lower opinion
a world opinion that now holds America in lower esteem than ever before.
absolutely life morning paper shocked terrorists understand
I am absolutely shocked to read in the paper this morning the terrorists just got their visas yesterday. I, for the life of me, can't understand how something like that can happen,
congress divisive pork provisions ram spending support win
ram through divisive provisions and pork spending that could never win the support of Congress on their own.
action assumption available course military
It would not be my assumption that the military course is the only action available to (the president) today,
doubt file happened release resolve simply
The way to resolve it is simply for the SEC to release the file so that there isn't any more outstanding question, that there isn't any doubt about what happened and why,
debt early revisit trillion
a revisit back to the early 1980s -- $3 trillion of debt later.
afford america dignity rewarding wealth
America can't afford to keep rewarding the accumulation of wealth over the dignity of work,
bill enron executive
The gimmickry in this bill is enough to make an Enron executive blush.