In an effort to try to make sure it doesn't, we put a provision in the amendment that authorizes the SBA to make the supplemental loans for Katrina victims that included oversight protections.

I apologize very much for being late. I expected to be on time, but I was meeting with some of the families, military families of kids who were in Iraq

This is the most important part of this hearing, as far as I am concerned, so I apologize for not being able to listen to each of you.

We will do everything in our power to help you, and I think your last comment is very important.

And the establishment of a Palestinian democracy will help to bring an end to the conflict in the Holy Land.

Americans are dying, and our approach to burden-sharing is to wait for others to come to us?

The success of freedom in Afghanistan and Iraq will give strength and hope to reformists throughout the region.

And America stands with oppressed people on every continent--in Cuba and Burma and North Korea and Iran and Belarus and Zimbabwe.

I think there's a tentativeness, certainly about the security situation in four of the 18 provinces.

What we've done in Iraq is what bin Laden could not have hoped for in his wildest dreams.

Now I think we have to rescue our policy from ourselves.