We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued.
And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back...
I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC.
But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.
In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here...
Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.