But I think the important thing is not experienced per se, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney had the best resumes from Washington and initiated a fiasco in Iraq, but rather, does someone have the judgment necessary to learn from experience…

Absolutely. I think -- I think the American people, at their core, are a decent people. I think that we still have prejudice in our midst, but I think that the vast majority of Americans are willing -- are willing to judge people on the…

That is the true genius of America. A faith -- a faith in simple dreams. An insistence on small miracles. That we can tuck in our children at night and know that they're fed and clothed and safe from harm.

Nothing would happen -- that happened tonight would discourage me from -- from making that race.

Don't send us political extremists. There was a time when the president was successful doing that, but I think that time has passed.

American soldiers are losing their lives. I don't think we can wait. I don't think we can ask them to wait.

I think we make a mistake when we fail to acknowledge the power of faith in people's lives.

Senator Clinton has been effective in trying to blur the distinctions. It really ends up speaking to how we are going to make decisions in the future.

The very thought of this behavior made me sick. And Mark Foley should be ashamed.

So, there are big divisions within our own party and, in some cases, within the leadership of the House and Senate that are both governed by Republican leaders.

The president has argued, and I suppose his followers argue, that we're going to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here. Well, our intelligence agencies say that, in the course of fighting them over there, their…

This National Intelligence Estimate that administration has had for so long doesn't square with the message that's been given to us by the president and Vice President Cheney over the last several weeks.

has thought been given about raising the renewable fuel standard to reflect the fact that we're actually doing better than we might have anticipated

But we can--and must--do more.

Yes, I know where they are. They're just too far away. We need more of them.

I'm sure many of these issues have already been raised.

But you haven't issued any recommendations yet, but this is something that your office is investigating, at least, would that be accurate?

If you don't know, it would be great if you could get back to my office on it.