I have repeated many times that our dependence on foreign oil is not just an economic security issue but also a national security issue.

For these reasons, I was pleased to have cosponsored the renewable fuels standard that passed last year.

I've said it many times but our dependence on foreign oil threatens not only our economic security but also our national security.

But we have to do more.

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

The politicians have come, and they're clapping kind of off rhythm. To the choir. We don't need that.

If we're not talking about how our values inform our public policies, then we are going to be vulnerable to the accusation that we are secular and can't speak to the things that are important to people.

A hundred percent of the Democratic caucus believes it's time for change. And 100 percent of the Republican caucus believes it's time to stay the course.

A hundred percent of the Democratic Caucus believes it's time for change and 100 percent of the Republican Caucus believes it's time to stay the course.

And for those who have argued where's your agenda, where's your agenda, it's being rolled out on a daily basis.

What does $100 buy you? Two tanks of gas, if you're lucky? Is that the best we can do in Washington, D.C., and then say adios, voters, see you in November? We've taken care of the problem? Well, we certainly have not.

Isn't it curious, as you drive around your hometown, that all the prices on all the pumps seem to go up at the same time and come down at the same time?

The prices at the pump don't reflect our addiction to oil, they reflect a failure in leadership by this White House.

Totally unusual. The agencies understand that if we're about to take a major military action or even consider one, you bring all your intelligence agencies together and say, what do you know, and what do you know for sure before we put our…

As we drew closer to the day of the vote, it stuck me as odd that we had never asked for a national intelligence estimate, an NIE.

I think that if Mr. Tenet felt the intelligence was bad or misleading, he should have resigned over it.

Listen, my legs are gone. They're never going to grow back, and if this gives me a platform to talk about those issues that are important to people of this district, to talk about education, to talk about health care, then that's fine.

Vote the issues. That's all I'm going to say.