America must recognize the opportunities, however imperfect, presented by the election of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) earlier this month.

I hope you will demand accountability from the people who serve you if, heaven forbid, they mis-serve you to the extent that our country has been, in my view, mis-served in Iraq.

We appreciate the leadership Senators Lugar, Biden and Hagel and others in the Congress have shown on this issue.

We have an exit strategy, which I happen to agree with.

The time for diplomacy, in my view, is long overdue.

According to the President, 'We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections.'

I would have voted to give the President authority to go to Iraq.

My purpose in being here today is to get more money for Amtrak.

And I hope to God she doesn't believe that.

The American people, because they like him, as I like him, believe the President levels with us.

You all don't do anything except parrot, 'We've trained 120,000 forces.'

It's not about criticizing the administration. It's about, I believe, a recognition on the part of our trainers...

I just reject the analogy between the two.

Well, you're in a hypothetical with China. You make a lot of deals with China. Their human-rights record is horrible.

That's not what Qaddafi told me. I asked him why he made the deal.

Yesterday, you claimed my colleague Barbara Boxer was impugning your integrity when she asked you about the changing rationale for the war in Iraq.

I think the world is waiting for a different approach, and I am confident that if the President offers the genuine opportunities for this kind of mutuality, not just here but abroad, you will be able to advance the interests of our country…

I would hope that you might, as we look at these programs here, expand the coverage to these countries.

I attempted to add countries to the HIV/AIDS legislation--Caribbean countries.

The single most dangerous thing in the world is the spread of nuclear weapons and their possible access by the bad guys beyond the nation-states.

I do believe one thing firmly, that there is no possibility of any fundamental change in the nuclear program in Korea or Iran, absent the United States actively, deeply engaged in the negotiation.

I didn't find a lot of distinction between quote, 'Iranian democrats,' with a small 'd,' and the Ayatollas.

Well, I think it would be a useful thing, upon consideration, once you're sworn in, for somebody to tell the American people what to expect...

I think we will know when the Iraqis are able to have in place institutions.

I think it's going to be somewhat clearer.