He didn't make a mistake like this president did, and like Rick Santorum did, by failing to ask the tough questions about Iraq.

I apologize to no one for my criticism of the president and of his broken policy.

I'm sick and tired of a whole bunch of Republican attacks, the most of which come from people who never wore the uniform and never had the courage to stand up and go to war themselves.

Maybe it is time to look at who leads that. I never felt in the first place that we went to Iraq with enough troops on the ground.

All of us know the strength that comes from prayer. It's at least 10 or 12 times a day that, on this campaign trail, that I pray to -- to hopefully carry myself in a manner that will make people in this -- of this state proud.

And we have invested a lot of time in -- in rural Missouri. You know, Democrats in the state for too long have thought that, well, don't go to the country, because you get on defense, and there's no point, and we can do enough in the…

George Allen is wrong on foreign policy. He's one of the reasons that we are in this disaster in Iraq.

I have led a literary career. And I'm very proud of it.

We can go and read Lynne Cheney's lesbian love scenes if you want to, you know, get graphic on stuff.

Those incidents either were illuminating characters or showing the average reader environments around the world.

I'm a serious writer. I mean, we can go and read Lynne Cheney's lesbian love scenes, if you want to, you know, get graphic on stuff.

I think it's absolutely -- you know, to -- to -- to pull, you know, one and two sentences out of a body of work, and try to use it for political purposes, is just absurd. And -- and -- and they know that.

No, if he means that we're -- we're making progress in Iraq. And I have been there seven times, as recently as this summer. I don't know any generals that are saying that.

I think that the Republicans in the United States Senate and Congress will demand Rumsfeld's resignation privately.

No, I'm not. And I met with him. I told him I wasn't.

He should not be satisfied. I don't know one single piece of significant advice that Secretary Rumsfeld has given the president that has turned out to be correct.

We're on the verge of chaos. The current plan is not working.

They are using the top public officials of this government to purely play politics, instead of focusing on the challenges the country faces.