I think we've reached the point here where most of the people in this country will -- want a positive solution, want an answer.

The second theme is economic fairness, with the breakdown of our society in a way that we probably haven't seen since the 1880s in the age of globalization.

I ran on three basic themes. One was reorganizing our national defense structure.

You don't have a strategy if you can't articulate the end point.

And the third is the accountability of this administration.

We have to get a transition going so that we can have a smooth process from the George Allen people into ours.

I would like to also, today, call on our president to publicly denounce the campaign tactics that have divided us, rather than brought us together.

It's time for people in the Congress and also people like this Iraq Study Group that is going to report to the administration to start helping the country move toward a solution.

We have to get a transition going, so that we can have a smooth process from the George Allen people into ours.

We all go out. We vote. We argue. We vote.

We must reorder our national offense and our foreign policy after this debacle in Iraq.

I have led a literary career. And I'm very proud of it.

George Allen is wrong on foreign policy. He's one of the reasons that we are in this disaster in Iraq.

We can go and read Lynne Cheney's lesbian love scenes if you want to, you know, get graphic on stuff.

I think it's absolutely -- you know, to -- to -- to pull, you know, one and two sentences out of a body of work, and try to use it for political purposes, is just absurd. And -- and -- and they know that.

I'm a serious writer. I mean, we can go and read Lynne Cheney's lesbian love scenes, if you want to, you know, get graphic on stuff.

Those incidents either were illuminating characters or showing the average reader environments around the world.

Nobody is relaxing until long after the storm has passed.