the strategy of containment remains relevant today

President Bush must call for an immediate cease-fire. This madness must stop.

We clearly need a new strategy. Obviously by any measurement, we're in a lot of trouble in Iraq.

The United States and Israel must understand that it is not in their long-term interests to allow themselves to become isolated in the Middle East and the world.

It's time for the slaughter to end on both sides.

The big issues like should we increase worker visas? Should we increase the ratio of green cards? What do we do about the 12 million illegal aliens in this country? How do we deal with these things? These are all imperfect answers that we'll come up with.

I think that Don Rumsfeld, this administration, the civilian leadership in the Pentagon, have to be held responsible for not having the kind of armor that we need to support our troops.

America's influence is very limited in Iraq. And it becomes more and more limited every day that goes by.

Every tactical, every strategic decision, right from the beginning, was a mistake, in my opinion.

Chuck Hagel, conservative Republican senator, has basically said -- said yesterday that we're no better off today -- in fact, we're worse off today than we were three years ago.

I don't see, Madam Secretary, how things are getting better. I think things are getting worse.

There were some lobbyists down there, actually. It was very creative of them, to get locked down there with us.

We've shed a lot of blood, spent a lot of money, invested heavily in Iraq, and it's still uncertain as to the outcome.

it is not unpatriotic to question the president, that even saying it is the Bush administration dividing the country -- it is the president saying the Democrats are dividing the country, the Democrats who are undermining the mission.

The Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and should not be demonized for disagreeing with them. Suggesting that to challenge or criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democracy. To question your country is not unpatriotic. To not question your government is unpatriotic.

Senator Hagel suggesting that the president should make some changes within his own inner circle in the wake of the CIA leak scandal.

Would you explain to this committee what you and the President see as an exit strategy for America from Iraq?

American policies in the war on terrorism must address the political and economic conditions that breed radicalism and violence.