It's important for us to win the hearts of those people before other people with bad intentions win their hearts.

I appreciate you coming by my office and our conversation I think stimulated a lot of my thinking.

It's unrealistic to think we can continue to add without looking at ways we might--can subtract.

I've heard of what kind of dysfunction it creates when you have hundreds of folks on this side sending multiple projects.

We don't need the Federal Government now to deal with secondary roads and bridges.

You seem to be open to look for realistic solutions there that are friendly to the environment.

I was encouraged that you are supportive of nuclear generation and I think we both look at some of this as a bridge to a future with more renewables.

The enemy that we're at war with, would you agree, is an unconventional enemy?

The combined Afghan security forces and all coalition forces at this moment are not enough to reverse the lost momentum, is that correct?

I support President Obama's efforts to interject more troops.

I think the U.S. Army, and particularly the National Guard, are training the police.

I support what the President's doing. I want the American public to know that this has been a NATO operation all along.

I think it was a miserable failure and that we now are having to take that job upon ourselves.

The point is, whatever relationship we have with Iraq is yet to be determined, I think that's a fair answer.

I look forward to working with you to clean up what is, quite frankly, a mess.

I think you're excellent choices for the jobs that you're about to take on, and I'm sure you'll be confirmed by the Senate.

If NATO fails in Afghanistan, it will never recover.

The only reason they possibly could have come back is because there's been a vacuum created.