The idea that we would call a temporary working program a program in which people come for multiple years with their families, with the ability to extend, is really an immigration policy.

You have one of the great large departments in our country. Not too long ago, we cobbled it together.

I hope you will look to expand that streamline process.

we certainly know there has been a change that has harmed civil rights plaintiffs.

I couldn't agree more, and they can be paid what, for them, would be a good wage, but far less than it would cost to have an American soldier there.

We only have one Commander in Chief, and I want to be supportive.

What can we realistically expect? How can we create stability and order in Afghanistan?

Of course, the National Guards are an example. Every State has a National Guard, and the Governors still appoint the commanders of those National Guards in America.

the harm that we are now doing to our panoply of civil rights cases is completely undeserved and harms our entire society.

I think there is a sense of loyalty and fierce commitment to local areas in nations like Afghanistan that we may not be fully respecting.

The Department of State (DOS) is challenged in fulfilling its responsibility, at least its paper responsibilities, in Afghanistan.

I do not like that we've had to commit more troops to Afghanistan. I had hoped that we could be able to bring down those troops.

I think it is perfectly right that the Supreme Court would affirm a rule that if you cannot assert a facially plausible cause of action in your complaint, it ought not to go forward.

It is not cowering in fear of terrorists to decide the best way for this case to be tried is to be tried by military commission.

I do not think we should give a preference to military commission trials simply because the enemy attacked civilian people rather than military people.

I cannot imagine somebody captured on the battlefield not being considered in custody.

I do not think the people are happy with the decision. I think there are clear advantages to trying cases by military commission as opposed to what can become a spectacle of a trial with high-paid defense lawyers and others focused on…

I just feel like I should make that statement for the record because I do think the victims felt strongly about it.

There has been a hostility by the President toward military commissions.

I think the idea that a captured combatant who, if eligible to be tried because they have committed violations of the laws of war, would be tried in military commissions is only common sense and part of our history.

if the presumption is these cases will be tried in civilian courts, then I do not know why the soldier he talks to on the battlefield is not instructed to give Miranda warnings.

You have got a tough job, but you asked for it.

We agree on a number of things. On the matter of the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the 9/11 terrorists we do not agree.

The Supreme Court did raise questions about the military commissions, and Congress passed some laws, I think, that improved that.

I do not think the American people are overreacting.