The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. |
The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there. |
the number of Iraqis prepared to take on the insurgency is somewhere between 4,000 and 18,000. |
The original power given to them was assuming that it would be used with discretion, ... Thirty thousand seems like an awful, awful stretch to me. |
The single most important thing we have to be doing now is make sure that training is on target and that they have the capacity to govern. |
There is no basic security ... It is bizarre! Absolutely bizarre! |
There is no certainty about a resolution, |
there will be no legitimacy to the constitution. |
They still have no concrete plan as to how we're going to proceed other than hope and pray that this constitution is accepted by the Iraqi people, which seems to me like a tough bet. |
They're going to have to see more Sunnis brought into the constitution-writing if there's going to be any legitimacy at the end of the day, ... And I think we'll see that. |
This combination of benchmarks and regular public accountability would go a long way toward convincing the American people that they are getting the facts in Iraq and that we have a strategy for success. |
This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact. |
This place just loves contrition, ... We all make mistakes. |
We all have a right to know where she stands on these basic issues. And I hope this puts to bed this notion that it's not a legitimate thing for the United States Congress to find out where a nominee stands on the fundamental constitutional questions facing her. |
We are rolling the dice with you, judge, |