if, in fact, the Lord Almighty came down and said, 'Look, we guarantee we can monitor whether they're keeping the commitment--no nukes, no missiles'--would we make a deal with them?

I was deeply troubled by the unwillingness of Dr. Rice, just very candidly and simply to answer the question about torture.

I'm going to vote for you because of the standard I have about the President having intelligent, bright people, if they're honorable--and you're all of those things--he gets to choose who he wants.

And the establishment of a Palestinian democracy will help to bring an end to the conflict in the Holy Land.

Americans are dying, and our approach to burden-sharing is to wait for others to come to us?

Iraq is, quote, 'a magnet for international terrorist activity.'

What we've done in Iraq is what bin Laden could not have hoped for in his wildest dreams.

There is this moment of opportunity, for whatever reason.

Now I think we have to rescue our policy from ourselves.

And America stands with oppressed people on every continent--in Cuba and Burma and North Korea and Iran and Belarus and Zimbabwe.

I don't want to have you in a circumstance where you're writing something, years later, about the fog of war.

I think it's important to note that, in the midst of what was sometimes a very divisive campaign, there was strong agreement between President Bush and Senator Kerry that our number-one priority, that our single greatest challenge, is…

And the time for diplomacy, in my view, is long overdue.

This is my personal view, that your loyalty to the mission you were given to sell this war overwhelmed your respect for the truth.

The current policy is growing the insurgency, not diminishing it.

The dynamics of the election could actually, without the proper actions, provide a greater capacity for civil war.

The duties of the United States Senate are set forth in the Constitution of the United States. Nowhere in that document does it say the Senate has a duty to give presidential nominees a vote.

Change is coming to America!