But he is aware, in terms of small businesses, that a small business owner would still have to be in the top 1-percent income bracket, the 35-percent bracket, to be affected? And, of all the small businesses in America, only 2 percent fall…

With regard to the small businesses, small business owners can still happen to be among the top 1 percent income earners. Only 2 percent of the small business owners fall into that bracket, a number which includes a lot of people who have…

my committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, pleaded with the administration, month after month, beginning well over a year ago, to share with us plans for reconstruction. We got obfuscation upon obfuscation, a rosy scenario about oil…

Yes, I thank the Senator from Utah for his question, and wholeheartedly agree with his understanding of this provision. I believe all of the drafters of this legislation are in agreement that most of the States that already have passed…

I wish he would get real and others would get real about the connection between the likelihood of America's being struck by another terrorist attack and our fighting in Baghdad. I don't know one security expert who will tell you…

I promise I am not going to keep you long. I plan on speaking in more detail to this tomorrow, but I wanted to lay this amendment down tonight. With the help of Senator Kerry, Senator Chafee, Senator Corzine, and Senator Feinstein, we have…

to me, this is real basic. If we want people to share the burden, we have to be willing to have people share the responsibility. Why does the administration propose--by the way, we have every right to look at the details of this $87…

I think it's critically important to get the United States out of this situation it's in right now as being an occupying power.

This is an absolutely dysfunctional police force and it always was dysfunctional.

I think it must be coupled with a more clear American explicit explanation of what it is that the United States would like to see happen on the democratization issue.

We Americans are easy. Just tell us you love us and we're OK.

I'm going to be just a very simple, plain old local county councilman here.

Superpower to them is like being the big brother in a family of 12 where the father holds you responsible for every single mistake the 11 kids make when he's away.

For us, a constitution is about the rights of the individual, the responsibilities of the government.

These are among the best hearings that we have.

I think that's a very good thing, but who are the ones ready, as Noah said, relative to the parties?

I'm a plain old politician and I'm trying to figure out, I'm sitting in my state that's in chaos.

if we're going to do that that quickly, and we may have to practically, if we do that that quickly, and I'm not sure I'm going to vote $87 billion for that, because I think the chances of that succeeding are about as likely as this cup of…

You're going to watch American troops leave here more rapidly than you can possibly imagine.

There are many of us who have been talking about internationalizing this effort.

We're saying write a constitution, then have a vote, not only on the constitution but on the constituent assembly.

We have hearings for two purposes, one for oversight and one to learn.

I think we are leading them fundamentally down a wrong track that will not lead to the freedom that they need to have as an open, operating society.

This ain't an imperial nation. This ain't one who is going to want to hang around there, and the American people understand oil isn't enough.

There is going to be, I predict to you, if something doesn't change quickly, a desire to confer sovereignty on whoever will stand up and say, I'm Iraqi.