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

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

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…

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

I think the entire committee is very pleased that you have put this on your list, on your agenda, as a high priority.

I told you that I was going to introduce comprehensive climate-change legislation.

I do think climate change is one of those areas where it's value-added for relationships, especially diplomacy.

We appreciate the leadership Senators Lugar, Biden and Hagel and others in the Congress have shown on this issue.

Well, I think you will not have to ask twice on that.

The record is actually very, very positive. It's just that we have not explained it very well.

I'm going to reintroduce my comprehensive--I think the only bipartisan immigration reform legislation of last year--I'm going to reintroduce it.

The work that the Powell-Armitage team has done for this country over the last four years has been significant.

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