Tom Daschle Issue Quotations

We aren't comfortable coercing somebody to speak, ... But when you have somebody this important and when you have the issue as critical as it is for all of this country at stake, there shouldn't be any question about his willingness to come before the committees.

So those two actions have apparently at least given us the impression (that the mail safety issue is being addressed. Again as I say, we can't really make any direct connection between any of these actions, but no new cases of illness have been reported,

Why does their proposal exclude over 100 million Americans from its limited number of protections? ... They're slicing this issue as thin as they can and hoping the American people don't see through their strategy. Why do they include a poison pill -- unlimited medical savings accounts that could make health insurance unaffordable for many Americans? Well, my guess is they really don't want legislation to pass this year.

This is an issue that's very important to South Dakotans, ... We hope we can find a balanced bill.

The choice is very clear -- either a partisan brinksmanship or a bipartisan accomplishment, ... We can't see a partisan standoff on an issue this important.

They would rather use this as an issue to run scurrilous ads.

There really is no more important issue Congress should be working on this year, and in this time of unprecedented economic growth there is no reason why we shouldn't be,

It was as close to a tie as history has ever seen, ... I fully support and accept the results of this election, let there be no mistake about it. But we all know that the vice president received more than 300,000 votes and the issue is: Now, where do we go from here?