The comments of Don Imus were divisive, hurtful and offensive to Americans of all backgrounds.

What's happened over the last several weeks is unacceptable. What we have found is a threat to the lives of pets, dogs and cats, across America, a threat that should have been minimized and maybe even avoided.

What has happened over last several weeks is unacceptable. What we have found is a threat to the lives of pets -- dogs and cats -- across America. A threat that should have been minimized and maybe even avoided.

I think when you have a company that discovers a problem that's killing animals and they don't report it for three weeks to the Food and Drug Administration, it is, at best, gross negligence.

I obey the cardinal rule of any politician, and that is to ask you all for your vote.

We've got a war that I believe should have never been authorized and should have never been waged.

And we will then review the situation and if you have not initiated the withdrawal at that point, then we may put you on an even shorter leash, right?

We don't have the technical capacity to create something like that.

I hope we can interest some people in it.

History will not judge the architects of this war kindly.

It is time to bring this conflict to a responsible end so we can bring our troops home.

There is no military solution to this war.

Too many of our best have now returned from Iraq shrouded in the flag they loved.

No amount of U.S. soldiers can solve the grievances that lay at the heart of someone else's civil war.

The consequences of this war have been dire, and the sacrifices have been immeasurable.

A withdrawal would be gradual and keep some U.S. troops in the region to prevent a wider war and go after al Qaeda and other terrorists.

On January 20, 2009, we will start transforming the country.

I had a cockroach in my hospital room. At the Malone House where my mother was staying as she was helping to take care of me, you know, I saw mice in their cafeteria. I didn't eat there. I wouldn't.