America has long been the leader of the free world. But we did not get there in an easy way. Likewise, Iraq is not going to get there in an easy way. |
America is providing the kind of leadership that the world respects and the world has come to understand; that is what America stands for. |
Americans took 13 years to draft their constitution and here, we're asking the Iraqis to do it in a short period of time, |
Before we can even get to the point of talking about changes that we want to make (in US farm spending), we've seen no indications from the Europeans that they're going to give us greater market access, |
But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend. |
Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again. |
Every time we have these photographs dribbled out or some expansion of that situation, it is not good for America, ... And we need to conclude it. And getting all of these photographs out at one time is the way to do it. |
Had that information been shared with other agencies ... who knows what may have happened? |
has been ongoing throughout most of the year. |
He's going to be grilled pretty good about what happened, how it happened and how far up the chain it looks like it went. |
His critics over the last several weeks have been saying the president has no plan, |
I am unsure as to whether or not we are able to get a bill out this week or not. |
I don't know what Katrina is going to do to budget reconciliation overall, ... There's simply no way that we can carry out the agenda that we had in place at the end of July, that we thought we would be dealing with today, just because of Katrina. |
I don't want to put any farmers at risk under the next farm bill. I want to do everything we possibly can to make sure we don't lose another case that is considered trade-distorting by the WTO. |
I expect Congress to reject them again. |