We all need to work together, and every tool needs to be deployed. And all of this must be done without delay, without excuse, and without red tape.

What's missing here is the president is basically and fundamentally wrong. He seems to think that somehow if we put more troops behind what has been failing time and time again, that it will make it work. And I just think he's wrong.

The only way that's going to happen is for America to stop enabling them, stop enabling their past bad behavior, and start pulling our troops out of Iraq so that they take responsibility.

I was surprised, when he -- especially at the end of the speech, when he was identifying a whole group of American heroes who were in the gallery. And I sort of got this sense inside of what Americans I think want, which is a sense of…

I would take 40,000 to 50,000 out immediately. And then over the course of the next year to a year and a half, be in the process of withdrawing American troops and redeploying them.

Yes, sir. I'm ready to be president.

It is the responsibility of the president of the United States to lead when this kind of crisis and this kind of catastrophe occurs, and he hasn't done it.

If I were in charge and I were making decision alone, I think the primary responsibility of this Congress is oversight on what's happening and accountability on what's happening in Iraq.

I think this idea of escalating the war is an enormous mistake.

Look for an announcement tomorrow from John Edwards. That's when the former Democratic senator and John Kerry running mate will declare his presidential candidacy.

We want a FEMA that is smart. That works. That stretches taxpayer dollars and uses them wisely. And unfortunately, we don't have that kind of FEMA in America today.

We need to get this economy back in line with our values, the things you and I grew up believing in -- hard work, responsibility, integrity, fairness. These are things that George Bush just does not understand.

I don't think negative -- again, the negative ads, to the extent that they were going to be effective -- and -- and, as I said earlier, 70 percent don't even matter.

I think you have got to respond to it.

The one thing we do know is that they're all more expensive.

I have recommended publicly that Democrats just abandon it, and go positive, that there's not much information you're going to inject right now that people don't know.

When I do vote on a Supreme Court justice, I'm going to vote on somebody that allows people to write about the horrors of war, without the fear of -- of censorship.

It -- book burning is -- is -- is not the -- the -- the greatest tactic in American politics in 2006.