was a national tragedy partly because members of Congress failed their country, remained silent and lacked the courage to challenge the administrations in power until it was too late. |
We are at a very important and delicate point in our relationship with the People's Republic of China and how this is handled will go a long way as to the future of that relationship, |
We are now producing a significant amount of oil from the North Slope of Alaska, all (with) environmentally sound technology, ... That environment has not been disrupted ... it's in as good a shape as before we ever put a drill in there. |
We can't ... take that piece of reality in this business and set that aside and say, well, that doesn't count. And the Republicans on my side understand that [the] majority is in fact up for grabs next year. So there's not a decision made up here that doesn't have that factor coursing through that current. |
We lose credibility in the face of the world when we say things like, 'Well, don't forget, what happened to Iraq could happen to you, Iran,' |
We need to be patient here; time is on our side here, |
We should start figuring out how we get out of there, |
We should start figuring out how we get out of there. But with this understanding, we cannot leave a vacuum that further destabilizes the Middle East, |
We took a day and a half to make sure that no millionaires could oust any of my colleagues from their seats, ... And many of my colleagues used terms like, 'my seat,' 'our seat,' don't let anybody threaten that, of course. |
We very much appreciate Kuwait's recent contributions, significant contributions, offering half a billion dollars to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, |
We were unprepared for what we were going to face, what we are facing, in a post-Saddam Iraq. And this is just one more manifestation of the problem. |
We're isolating ourselves in the world ... And I think that the leadership of the Pentagon has done that in many ways to us, ... This issue of a secretary of defense not personally signing these letters is just astounding. |
We've got to have a clear objective of what it is we want to do in Iraq, ... We went into Iraq and it was all about regime change, weapons of mass destruction and that Saddam was not complying with U.N. mandates. Now the objective is to fight terrorists. That wasn't the objective when we went in. There were no terrorists. As bad as Saddam was, and he was bad and needed to be taken out, but he was not in league with terrorists. |
Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract. |
What I think the White House does not yet understand ? and some of my colleagues ? the dam has broke on this policy, ... The longer we stay there, the more similarities (to Vietnam) are going to come together. |