The abuses at Abu Ghraib represented a total breakdown in supervision, training, discipline and leadership.

We need to focus our energies on the war on terror, which we cannot afford to lose.

The year 2003 saw the lowest annual level of terrorist attacks since 1969 which indicates that much progress has been made.

American lives are going to be in danger unless we clean house and hold people accountable at whatever levels for what happened here.

Yes, I do. I think we might as well get this behind us and not just have this leak out two or three pictures at a time.

Thank you very much, Mr. McConnell. I regret to tell you that you come before us at a time of very stretched budgets.

You hate to think of using a GPS locator, normally a great invasion, but that might be the life saver for an Alzheimer's patient.

That kind of care is so critically important, and we will continue to fight and to work on it.

Well, that is good. I appreciate that. Thank you for that. We would love to be able to fund this and the other things, but we do have a tight budget.

It seems to me that whenever I am home, the newspaper or the radio will report a tragic circumstance where an elderly person has disappeared.

I have been a long-time advocate of respite care for family members who are caregivers for adults with any kind of problem requiring assistance.

The pictures convinced me there was a concerted organized effort to extract information from Iraqi prisoners and the abuses were not individual acts.

Well, they were even another level of horror above the previous ones.

Well, this has been a wonderful hearing, Senator Bond. Thank you for providing the leadership for us to organize it.

I'm sorry about administration officials led by the vice president repeatedly trying to link Saddam Hussein to 9/11. I'm sorry that truth tellers in the administration like General Shinsecki and Lawrence Lindsay were hounded out of their…

Now you can't tell me that all of this was going on with seven or eight Army privates, and so the question is where did that failure of the command and control occur?

We need to ensure that research funding continues to grow to combat this disease.

Err on the side of caution. I think at this time it would not be wise to publish them.