I want to run a very positive campaign and I sure don't want Democrats or the supporters of Democrats to be engaging in the politics of personal destruction. I think we should say, focus on what we're going to do for America. And, you…

I have taken responsibility for my vote. The mistakes were made by this president, who misled this country and this Congress into a war that should not have been waged.

Senator Durbin mentioned one political party, the mugwumps. I would say the Republicans in the Senate today resembled another as well, the know-nothings. Hear no evil. See no evil. Do no evil. Put your head in the sand. Ignore what's going…

Based on the President's speech tonight, I cannot support his proposed escalation of the war in Iraq.

The President's Iraq policy has been marred by incompetence and arrogance as his Administration has refused to recognize the military and political reality on the ground.

The cap is meant to send a signal to the president, as is our efforts to get a resolution of disapproval, that he no longer has political support in the country and the Congress for pursuing this policy.

And I say amen. You know, we're going to try to get to the bottom of these contracting abuses and the waste and the fraud that has gone on in these wars. There's been no oversight, no accountability.

We are playing a very dangerous game of chicken here.

Everyone that I know of who has studied this believes there is no military solution. There has to be a political component and an international component.

We're playing a very dangerous game of chicken here.

His efforts to continue to put the best face on what they have so terribly mismanaged in Iraq no longer has any credibility attached to it.

This was his decision to go to war. He went with an ill-conceived plan and an incompetently executed strategy. And we should expect him to extricate our country from this before he leaves office.

I think there are hundreds and thousands of insurgents who are willing to fight us and engage in sectarian warfare in Iraq. One of the reasons I oppose the escalation is that I don't believe that, you know, putting more American troops…

This is his war. He conceived it poorly. He executed it incompetently.

Bush shouldn't leave Iraq to the next administration.

And I say, amen. You know, there's no oversight, no accountability. It's the first time we have had a war where, literally, the government has been given a blank check and the Congress didn't do its job.

No. You know, within a week we had Najaf.

No. But I also don't trust Vice President Cheney, so I really think it's fair to say his assessments have been wrong consistently.