It's too easy for a little punk to get a gun.

People have to wake up and say we have to get involved, we've got to do something about this.

I think that we see a tremendous increase in the homicide rates, for example, and violent crimes, because we have this whole culture of disenfranchised young people.

I think we have to say, quick shaking our heads and say, isn't this terrible, isn't this scary? Got to reach out, places like Boys and Girls clubs are kind of doing their job all alone in inner cities particularly.

I believe that my experience and my qualifications uniquely equip me to hit the ground running in January 2009.

For six long years, our president has not seen the vast majority of Americans, not our middle class, not our working families. He's looked right through them. To him, they're invisible.

Senator Clinton blamed President Bush's cuts to community policing programs for recent spikes in crime and rising fear.

On January 20, 2009, we will start transforming the country.

It's alive and well and living in New Hampshire.

Appearances is -- are troubling. I think the executive branch owes it to Congress to be forthcoming when Congress asks for information. And this has not been handled well.

I think he did an outstanding job. I would not hesitate at all to recommend him to be reappointed.

I'm here today to announce that my family and I will make a decision on my political future later this year.

There are some small glimmers of success already. Let's give it a chance, give this great general and these young people a chance to succeed in Iraq.

We all need to work together, and every tool needs to be deployed. And all of this must be done without delay, without excuse, and without red tape.

The mission in Iraq has changed and therefore so must U.S. policy change.

The mission in Iraq has changed. And, therefore, so must U.S. policy change.

He has called the war in Iraq the most dangerous foreign policy blunder this country has made since the Vietnam War.

That's the kind of voice that Chuck Hagel could be if antiwar sentiment continues to grow.