I admire her work. And our only charge here is to protect the dollars of the American taxpayer.

the elections were certainly very encouraging to all of us.

If there's some redundancy here, we need to know.

And they did a great job, and it made an unbelievable difference.

It's important that we have a good relationship with India. It's a very important country.

I think that's an understatement. You know, the situation there continues to deteriorate.

Condi was brilliant. She disarms the biggest of big-shots. Why? Because they know she knows what she is talking about.

But is it possible that too much nation building runs the risk of extending too far the vision of the city on a hill?

Our initial war in Iraq was a stunning success.

What came afterwards has been a series of miscalculations.

We don't need an exit strategy in Iraq, we need a success strategy.

President Bush has made an excellent choice in nominating Dr. Condoleezza Rice to be America's next Secretary of State.

But perhaps we should think more about strategies for extending freedom and democracy in the world other than nation building.

How many American lives are we willing to sacrifice to do this?

How we ourselves live would then become our most persuasive claim to real leadership in a world filled with people hungry to know how to live their lives.

Of course we will never say that only some men are created equal, that only some children will not be left behind or that we will pay only some price to defend freedom.

we're basically talking about recruiting the most talented people in the world

I look forward to hearing from Chairman Greenspan, and I will reserve other comments until the question period.