Senator Lugar has--we've talked about this--to close the fuel cycle, to make it not possible for countries to enrich uranium or other fuels to the point that they are left with the fuel.

I am troubled by the damage done to our image around the world; I am concerned by our loss of focus in fighting terrorism.

Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of professionalized terrorists.

I'm also concerned by the fact that we've never fully funded, it appears to me, the Nunn-Lugar program.

I think there's a tentativeness, certainly about the security situation in four of the 18 provinces.

Now we have reached a moment of opportunity, and we must seize it.

Well, it's not very private counsel when you go on the national media shows, appear publicly, and answer questions in that forum.

I will continue to oppose every bad policy, to question every baseless assertion, and to advocate for a wiser course that will make our country more secure.

It's about candor. It's about telling the full story.

We need to get back to building this bipartisanship in foreign policy. It is critical.

We have to hold him to those commitments.

President Karzai ran on a platform of developing a stronger strategic relationship with the United States--and was elected.

I actually think that the Bush administration's foreign policy over the last four years has been, on many fronts, misguided and self-defeating, and I will continue to oppose these policies.

The election that's going to take place, that has to take place--has to take place--on January 30th, provides a moment of opportunity.

Our troops are stunning. Superb.

The success of freedom in Afghanistan and Iraq will give strength and hope to reformists throughout the region.

I would very much hope the administration would listen to that.

There has been an incredible deterioration in recent years in the U.S. trade deficit.