Robert C. Byrd

I am shocked by this administration's loose talk about a Marshall Plan for the Middle East.

At what point exactly did our mission in Iraq expand so dramatically that our conversation has shifted to bringing democracy and free-market economies to the entire Middle East?

The truth, of course, is that this long and costly occupation was not unavoidable, and it was not an urgent threat in the war on terror.

We're appropriating on behalf of the American people, and it involves their treasure and their sons and daughters.

We ought to have the information coming out of that Madrid conference as to how much money those various and sundry countries are going to contribute.

I think that it's a matter worth consideration that we have people come to this committee who do not represent the administration's line.

It is my feeling that, inasmuch as we're launching down a long road here which entails reconstruction efforts, which the American people were not told about, and which entails the establishment of a democracy in Iraq, and the…

I have only the highest praise for him and the people who serve under him.

We're destroying our National Guard and Reserves, I can tell you. They're exhausted.

It's not a money supplemental, it's a manpower supplemental.

Let's get away from the so-called Coalition--Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia. Come on.

I don't compliment the President a durn bit. He has not been helpful to the military.