Leon Panetta: “We're still in negotiations with the Iraqis.”

That’s too long, and it should have been brought back sooner.

I don't like the idea that former soldiers who served well, uh, at least during the time they spent in the military, uh, that somehow there was something that happened that then turned them into terrorists.

The secretaries of defense feel that there have to be hearings to oversee just exactly what took place and what standard this administration is going to use.

I think it was Walter Mondale when he was asked about the legacy of the Carter administration, said something like, we told the truth, we followed the law and we preserve the peace.