For a year now, the community has been saying 'It's coming, it's coming,' ... With all the attention centered on the presence of the debate, very few people have stopped to consider what will happen when it's gone.

It has come to my attention again that rumors about you and Rachel continue to swirl in the community. We need to discuss this formally because I need to ask some tough, direct questions.

They get the attention they deserve. They were great last year. But we get the attention we deserve. Teams know about us, and they come after us.

We need a public hospital for our community. [Officials] kept saying they weren't going to close it, but now we're faced with it again.

There are parts of that report that are absolutely unanimous with what the (medical) community has been saying, and other parts of the report that are very specific organizational things that are not really what Secretary Chertoff has in mind,

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.