Thanks for having the hearing and thanks for your leadership and that of Senators Grassley and Murkowski on this issue.

Mr. Card, I would like to look to the future a little bit.

If it is impractical, I think it would help us if we were told that and told, instead of doing this, let us do that.

would one solution just be to give it all to the Department of Labor?

There is strong precedent for cutting off relations with the PA.

Yasser Arafat has demonstrated a manifest unwillingness to address this issue.

The time has come to recognize that the Palestinian Authority is not a partner for peace.

Arafat's regime is evil from top to bottom.

this is where we are, and he's right.

We don't want Iraq. That is I don't. You could poll a million Kansans if you want to and I don't know if you'll find one that says that we want that.

I said, 'Well, get them to us. I'll go to the floor of the United States Senate, and I know about 18,000 or 19,000 C-SPAN junkies.'

Saddam has been a problem for a long period of time.

I think it is time we also report the successes.

We need to emulate the military practice of using overwhelming force in the beginning.

I hope you do not become McNamara. I hope you do not give us rosy scenarios that can't possibly play out.

Democracy could not flourish unless Europe's devastated economies were rebuilt.

Some Iraqis are beginning to regard us as occupiers and not as liberators.

I don't believe that the United States has anything to apologize for, but I wonder if, in hindsight...