We had a responsibility to respond to that. What we have to do now is to make sure that places like Afghanistan and Pakistan don't become safe havens so that al Qaeda can again pla...
We have a real conflict here.
This Congress has the responsibility, working with the administration, to get us on a track to ultimately reduce that.
The responsibility does lie with the people on that committee to look at the entire Federal budget.
I think from the very beginning the President's made clear that we will have an enduring presence there.
The best signal we can send to the Taliban is that we're going to continue to fight them and that we're going to continue to be there and th...
I have made very clear that we will do everything necessary to protect our forces.
I think Prime Minister Maliki, he understands that his country cannot allow Iran to be able to conduct that kind of influence within his cou...
None of us want to see that happen.
It sure is. The last time we balanced the budget, I thought we were in Valhalla.
I'm probably one of the few people here that, having worked on a number of budget summits, ultimately did achieve a balanced budget.