The President hasn't requested one dime of his $81.9 billion supplemental for the veterans' healthcare system.

Well, I have to tell you, Mr. Secretary, this seems to me to be an abuse, a serious abuse, of supplemental appropriations requests.

The size of the insurgency in Iraq has been consistently underestimated, in terms of the size and the force.

I thank you for holding these hearings on the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for intelligence reform.

So as I understand your response, you do not think that the intelligence community would have come to any different conclusion about Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction if the 9/11 Commission's recommendation for intelligence…

I cannot see how under the doctrine of preemptive strike that any President can make this decision by himself.

It seems to me that we ought to at least bow to the Constitution as we enter into this temple of the destructive doctrine of first strike.

Yet, there appears to be a growing drum beat of opinion that Congress has no choice but to undertake a complete overhaul of intelligence in the few weeks remaining in the session.

the doctrine of preemption says that one man, the President, shall have power to declare war.

In your view, Dr. Kissinger, why did our intelligence agencies fail so tragically? Was it because of how our agencies were supposed to work with each other on an organizational chart, or was it because enough money was not getting to the…

I do not believe that we can overstate the importance or the difficulty of the challenge before the Congress.

What about those who have said, hell no, we won't go?