We have made a great many mistakes in this war. And history will hold us to account for them, just as the voters did last week.

I don't understand that tactic, General.

Common sense conservatives believe that the government that governs least governs best.

We were elected to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private enterprise. We increased the size of government and the false hope that we could bribe the public into keeping us in office. And the people…

When Americans confront a catastrophe, either natural or manmade, their government across jurisdictions should be organized and ready to deliver bottled drinking water to dehydrated babies and rescue the aged and infirmed trapped in a…

But I would say roughly you need another 20,000 troops in Iraq.

Let's invite a genuine contest of ideas within our party and with the other party for conservationism, as Ronald Reagan told us, is not a narrow ideology.

The day after 9/11 we should have begun to increase significantly the size of the Army and Marine corps. But we did not.

I regret deeply that you seem to think that the status quo and the rate of progress that we are making is acceptable. I think that most Americans do not.

Basically, you're advocating the status quo here today, which I think the American people, in the last election, said, that is not an acceptable question.

I am of course disappointed that basically you're advocating the status quo here today which I think the American people in the last election said that is not an acceptable condition.

I think you can look back and say that more American troops would have been advisable in the earlier stages.

Are we doing the things, organizationally and legally, that need to be done to prepare for it? Yes.

I have always said we needed more troops in Iraq.

I believe that there are a lot of things that we can do to salvage this, but they all require the presence of additional troops.

We have just one choice in Iraq, and that is to see our mission there through to victory.

We had a carrots-and-no-sticks policy that only encouraged bad behavior. When one carrot didn't work, we offered another. Now we are facing the consequences of the failed Clinton administration policies.

It's clear we have to have the moral high ground and we cannot violate the Geneva Conventions.