Diplomacy Has Been Exhausted ..

People Were Concerned About National Security, And That Precluded Us From Having The Opportunity To Break Through On The Issues That We Cared Most About - The Economy, Education And Health Care.

We Will Also Never Bring Up The Permanent Tax Cut The President Is Advocating.

If I Could Leave This Body With One Wish, It Would Be That We Never Give Up That Search For Common Ground, .. The Politics Of Common Ground Will Not Be Found On The Far Right, Or On The Far Left. That Is Not Where Most Americans Live. We Will Only Find It On The Firm Middle Ground, Based On Common Sense And Shared Values.

I Think We Are Isolating Ourselves, And In So Isolating Ourselves, I Think We're Minimizing Ourselves, I Don't Think We Are Taken As Seriously Today As We Were A Few Years Ago.

As The Representatives Of The People We Are Here To Declare That Our Resolve Has Not Been Weakened By These Horrific And Cowardly Acts.