I appreciate you coming by my office and our conversation I think stimulated a lot of my thinking.

I've heard of what kind of dysfunction it creates when you have hundreds of folks on this side sending multiple projects.

We don't need the Federal Government now to deal with secondary roads and bridges.

It's unrealistic to think we can continue to add without looking at ways we might--can subtract.

You seem to be open to look for realistic solutions there that are friendly to the environment.

I was encouraged that you are supportive of nuclear generation and I think we both look at some of this as a bridge to a future with more renewables.

If NATO fails in Afghanistan, it will never recover.

The enemy that we're at war with, would you agree, is an unconventional enemy?

I think you're excellent choices for the jobs that you're about to take on, and I'm sure you'll be confirmed by the Senate.

I agree with you. We're at war.

The combined Afghan security forces and all coalition forces at this moment are not enough to reverse the lost momentum, is that correct?

In Iraq we're on offense? The Iraqi people, the Iraqi security forces?

I look forward to working with you to clean up what is, quite frankly, a mess.

I think the cost of the Afghan Army at that level's going to be $3 or $4 billion, at the very minimum.

The military justice system is humane, is transparent, I think it's the right forum.

The balance that we're trying to achieve is not to put everybody in Afghanistan in jail because that's counterproductive, but to make sure that the really bad ones don't come back after 96 hours.

I think the U.S. Army, and particularly the National Guard, are training the police.

There should not be. No one should be held, in a domestic criminal environment, indefinitely without the right to a trial.