John F. Kerry: “I hope next month we might be in a position to try to move to a markup on that.”

President Karzai ran on a platform of developing a stronger strategic relationship with the United States--and was elected.

Now we have reached a moment of opportunity, and we must seize it.

I think it's important to note that, in the midst of what was sometimes a very divisive campaign, there was strong agreement between President Bush and Senator Kerry that our number-one priority, that our single greatest challenge, is…

We need to get back to building this bipartisanship in foreign policy. It is critical.