The great state of Missouri has spoken.

The great state of Missouri has spoken!

Now we can have a -- a new beginning, a new face at the Pentagon, who doesn't carry the baggage that Secretary Rumsfeld carried.

You know, last week the vice president said, regardless of the outcome, the administration would go full speed ahead in the same direction. Well, I think that the American people have said, not so fast!

And I don't see this being an easy confirmation unless there is a change in strategy and unless he's willing to come forward with that change in strategy.

We all go out. We vote. We argue. We vote.

If the vote of last night from all over America didn't accomplish anything but this, it was a good night.

The American people have spoken clearly and decisively in favor of Democrats leading this country in -- in a new direction.

We must reorder our national offense and our foreign policy after this debacle in Iraq.

He has take charge strong approach. But I think you will see him reaching out more to Congress.

He is redefining what it means to be called a Democrat out West. He is a third-generation farmer who also runs a butcher shop on the side.

We can do better, and we've had enough. I have -- if I read one more time about the vaunted GOP turnout machine, I may get nauseous.

McCaskill is trying to tie Talent to Bush.

I think, on that great challenge of our time, the president gets it. And I -- I say that across party lines. And I think he's tried his best to alert America to that danger.

People across the state of Tennessee realize that this is a choice. This is a choice between two individuals that cannot have had different life experiences, nor in reality a different view of what makes our country stronger, safer and…

I think that we need to do the things that have made us greet, and that is have fiscal constraints, which we have been lacking in Washington.

What the people depend upon government most to do is to make sure that they're safe.

I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform. And I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended.