rocksolid integrity, unusual determination and perseverance, perseverance and perseverance. well, as you might guess, i am a great admirer of the her race -- dr. rice. not much is moammar gadhafi. i don't have a scrap book. [applause] but i do have an enormous regard for dr. rice and very, very pleased that she is here and to do her formal introduction come i'd like to invite ambassador cobb to the stage. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. thank you to president shalala, my wife for those nice, nice comments. and before you introduce condoleezza rice, i want to share with all of you a favoritism i have house, a that i have. and this bias is that i have a strong affinity for smart, strong, powerful, successful and charismatic women leaders. and as evidenced at that -- [applause] and there's evidence of that, i have been married to one of those ladies for 52 years. [applause] but as second -- but a second evidence of that i had the pleasure to chair the search committee with the university of miami president. and our first choice by far was donna shalala because she had al

one of his drinks though as he is a rocksolid base. the african american voters are strongly behind him. he does well with hispanics and other minorities as well. so demographically, that is his best hope of getting reelect bid from the political environment standpoint. he is running in to head with emily to a jimmy carter had in 1980. >> and obama run for reelection on his record and went quiet >> on his record, but he can run and attributes. >> one of the things i've been going on for the last couple years as a political people to move away from traditional issues of budget, taxes for governors, education, transportation and focus on the attributes, and accountability, personal responsibility. i give you an example. two examples in terms of language. if the fight is over the middle class, which is still an attribute, not really an issue, democrats are going to win. they spent the last 30 years fighting over the middle class to try to demonstrate that they represent them and they have an edge and with what's happening in our economy w

if you guys are that rocksolid, wise and the private sector step in and click some of the suspected might be regulators that have been clamping down on amounts of loans that banks are holding in those types of things. but i think you are seen sorter that push me pull you asked that to some of my concern at least. my time has expired. >> briefly i would say -- i think we agree that we need to encourage private capital to come back. the fact that our market share is now shrinking is evidence, i believe that the steps you're taking on on premiums and underwriting are in fact doing a direction. >> thank you. my pack him butters from california for five minutes. i believe the chairman had also made a commitment to you because he was mr. opening statement that there would be some additional time and all at the next person in the chair take care of that. let's go with five-minute and then ask for additional. >> thank you very, very much. i'm appreciative for secretary, then in the time that he is putting him on this very, very important issue today. i would like to remind the committee that we s

one of his drinks though as he is a rocksolid base. the african american voters are strongly behind him. he does well with hispanics and other minorities as well. so demographically, that is his best hope of getting reelect bid from the political environment standpoint. he is running in to head with emily to a jimmy carter had in 1980. >> and obama run for reelection on his record and went quiet >> on his record, but he can run and attributes. >> one of the things i've been going on for the last couple years as a political people to move away from traditional issues of budget, taxes for governors, education, transportation and focus on the attributes, and accountability, personal responsibility. i give you an example. two examples in terms of language. if the fight is over the middle class, which is still an attribute, not really an issue, democrats are going to win. they spent the last 30 years fighting over the middle class to try to demonstrate that they represent them and they have an edge and with what's happening in our economy w

one of his drinks though as he is a rocksolid base. the african american voters are strongly behind him. he does well with hispanics and other minorities as well. so demographically, that is his best hope of getting reelect bid from the political environment standpoint. he is running in to head with emily to a jimmy carter had in 1980. >> and obama run for reelection on his record and went quiet >> on his record, but he can run and attributes. >> one of the things i've been going on for the last couple years as a political people to move away from traditional issues of budget, taxes for governors, education, transportation and focus on the attributes, and accountability, personal responsibility. i give you an example. two examples in terms of language. if the fight is over the middle class, which is still an attribute, not really an issue, democrats are going to win. they spent the last 30 years fighting over the middle class to try to demonstrate that they represent them and they have an edge and with what's happening in our economy w