I see no point in considering Bolton's nomination again.

No, if he means that we're -- we're making progress in Iraq. And I have been there seven times, as recently as this summer. I don't know any generals that are saying that.

He should not be satisfied. I don't know one single piece of significant advice that Secretary Rumsfeld has given the president that has turned out to be correct.

No, I'm not. And I met with him. I told him I wasn't.

I think that the Republicans in the United States Senate and Congress will demand Rumsfeld's resignation privately.

We set out benchmarks. We tried to get them to accept benchmarks a year-and-a-half ago, and the president called it cutting and running. Now the president is calling for benchmarks.

I am sure for enlisted men and women as well.

I spent some time at some of those bases that Senator mentioned, Jacksonville, Mayport, those places.

I still don't see a strategy for victory in Iraq.

But you've got to do something about these militia. And so far I see no -- no real strategy.

There is no military solution to the problems we face in Iraq.

Look, our whole reason they taught as a nation, is that we have a value set that is different from the rest of the world in that we hold ourselves accountable, accountable to decency.

I think the secretary of defense should go. I don't think he should be in his office this morning.

Absolutely positively.

I think it's a failure of both leadership and policy. And I think, you know, one of the things you've got to look at, 99 percent of our troops over there, these are guys and women who are doing God's work. They're working hard. They're…

Look, marriage is between a man and a woman. Tell me why that has to be put in the Constitution now?

It's an election year. Look, I mean, we have already passed a law saying that -- and the Defense of Marriage Act, defining marriage between a man and a woman. No one has challenged it. It's a federal law. And now we're talking about a…

Look, I don't -- I don't know whether it would be writing discrimination into the Constitution. But it doesn't warrant the Constitution.