Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Rumsfeld is violating the law, ... It's been sitting on the books for over a year. They were opposed to it. It was insulting to them. I'm sorry that's how they felt.

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

We've got a very busy agenda at the U.N., it's going to be very difficult to get the job done. Let's get behind him, let him do his work … I certainly want to see him succeed but I'm going to watch him carefully.

This will be the first U.N. ambassador since 1948 that we've ever sent there under a recess appointment,

I would hope the president would think a little longer about this from his perspective,