Obama would rather win the election than win in Iraq.

I had the courage and the judgment to say that I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Senator Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.

I don't know how you respond to something that is such a false depiction of what actually happened.

Obama has the timeline of the surge all wrong.

It doesn't in the slightest undercut the fact that it's based on conditions on the ground.

It has to be based on conditions on the ground. But whenever you win wars, and we are winning, then we will be able to come home.

I view it as a failure because I think that I should have done better.

I'm fully satisfied that my conduct at all times was conducted in keeping with the standards of my office.

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.

Please, let me finish.

And this hearing will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God.

the Republican candidate for president, John McCain has spent a lifetime challenging convention and pulling off the improbable.

The first thing we need to do is make the Bush tax cuts permanent.

I will always tell you the truth, no matter what.

To somehow disconnect it from Afghanistan shows again incredible naivete.

To be at political rallies, then it's a political event.

He has been the chairman of the committee of the subcommittee that oversights NATO operations. Afghanistan, we obviously know, about NATO involvement. He's never had a hearing.

He has been chairman of the committee, of the subcommittee that oversights NATO operations. Afghanistan, we obviously know about NATO involvement. He's never had a hearing. He's never had a hearing.