To start withdrawing troops would be equivalent to surrendering in the central battle front in the war on terror.

We're on the verge of chaos. The current plan is not working.

I was an early supporter of the concept of military commissions and their use in the war on terror. I believed then and I still believe now that they are historically grounded and the proper forum to prosecute alleged terrorists.

The problem with the way he chose to do this is that they dealt Congress out early on, and they paid a price in the court for that.

Unfortunately, one Member of the Committee continues to hold it up; so, as hurricane season starts again, we're still sitting on our hands with something that could do a lot of what you had said.

I know exactly what it is, because I'm an old retail guy. And what this is, is the government telling retailers how to run their business.

I think we've reached a plea bargain with 11 million illegal aliens.

We have to recognize that for several generations, people have made America home. And we've accepted the benefit of their labor.

I know abortion is important. It's important to me. It's important to you. I know it's an important central concept in our jurisprudence. But we can't build a judiciary around that one issue. We can't make judges pledge allegiance to one…

Are you really a closet bigot?

Men and women, black and white, your colleagues who say that Sam Alito, whether I agree with him or not, is a really good man.

The idea that our president or this administration took the law in their own hands and ignored the precedent of other presidents or case law and just tried to make a power grab, I don't agree with.

To smear Sheehan rather than hear her is un-American and undemocratic.

It's really a very simple story. A legitimate question was raised. A citizen with particular expertise went out and attempted to answer the question, as did others. The answers were ignored.

Clearly, it was a decision the CIA made. And they made it because, again, I had spent a lot of time with the most senior officials in Niger over the previous decade, and developed a considerable amount of credibility with them.

The fact remains, if you kind of look at this from a number of different angles, you can't get out from under the fact that the French mining company is the organization that is the only organization that has its hands on the product.

There would be only one reason for Saddam Hussein to be purchasing uranium yellowcake from Niger and that would be to resuscitate his nuclear weapons program. It was important to check it out.

Before the hunger crisis, what did we know about Niger? A murky connection between Saddam, uranium, the CIA and a mystery leading to the White House.