The conduct that this defendant committed is really extremely egregious and deserves serious consequences.

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.

That was the -- the largest deficiency. We have been struggling ever since. These are all situations that could have been predicted and that should have been met early on.

This is a tinderbox of difficulty.

Senator Landrieu's bill would get all participating states to have a media campaign -- it's required -- and she would link all the states in a national registry which would protect a father no matter where he was and where the mother was.

I see from every indication two out of three Ohioans saying this war has been badly managed by the civilians in the White House and the Pentagon, valiantly fought by soldiers and Marines, but badly managed.

This war has been absolutely incompetently run.

President Bush's nomination of Vice Admiral Thad Allen to be Coast Guard commandant is being held up now by Republican Senator John Ensign.

It would appear, if you look at the profit margins, that the industry is purposely keeping refining capacity low.

Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has…

A tough day at the office today for Wisconsin Democratic Senator Russ Feingold. He introduced a resolution to censure President Bush, but really got nothing but trouble from Republicans and little support from Democrats in return.

Rather than a tax increase, I think the first place we ought to look . . . is the tax gap. If we could collect this money, we'd virtually eliminate the deficit.

I know many in the media view this conference, at least in part, as a beauty contest for potential candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in '08. Well, you can see I'm no beauty. I'm older than dirt, I have more scars than…

I think we need to know more about the details. Is this some sort of a transfer? Is it an actual complete letting loose of the government control of this company?

D.P. World has decided to transfer fully the U.S. operation of P&O Ports North America to a United States entity.

I was trying to do that this very week, working with Senator Chris Dodd. Senator Clinton and I have worked on other issues together involving the defense industries.

I just want to know how it's going to be better next week and how are we going to be ready for the next natural disaster or terrorists.

Well, we don't know the details, Anderson. We got a one-paragraph report that said that there was going to be a transfer, but the devil's in the details.