I think that you are getting a chorus from members here about our unhappiness with what is going on in terms of antitrust over a whole series of years.

Unless we change those attitudes, unless we encourage the administration in Kabul to take these issues seriously, to do more to empower women, and to hold accountable those who have committed abuses against them, this insurgency is just…

This is not a battle, in Afghanistan, between us and the Taliban. This is a battle between the government and the Taliban.

I am absolutely convinced. I've traveled all over the world. They want America to be the moral leader.

I think there've been periods in our past when kind of saying the moral thing or the right thing to do was kind of like, 'Oh,' you know, 'you just don't get it.'

time and again, our Federal employees that are doing this kind of work are just incredible people doing an incredible job, for all the right reasons.

I think what is very important for the African nations, the countries, to understand, much as we've seen in Mexico and Central America, years ago, where they say, 'Well, it's just transiting Mexico or Central America; it's going to the…

I believe, as a student of the Congress, outside of the decision to go to war, the decision of who is going to be on the Supreme Court is the single most important decision that you make as a United States Senator.

I am concerned because recently there has been erosion in anti-trust, both in the courts and the enforcement.

Short of voting to go to war, the Senate's constitutional obligation to advise and consent on Supreme Court nominees is probably our most important responsibility.

NATO's an incredible organization and an incredible concept. America should be involved. I'm all for all that.

I think it's an excellent proposal, and I think it's been interesting to sit here and watch, in the absence of real affirmation of the War Powers Act or the declaration of war, there's a kind of a kabuki theater that goes on, where the…

In my travels in Africa, it seems to me the biggest problem we have is corruption.

If we could do something about corruption in Africa, it would go a long ways toward preventing these things.

Over the past decades, you have done an amazing job with organized crime--in fact, really bringing it under control.

I have been deeply impressed with the level of commitment to not only fighting the cartels, but to cleaning up corruption in Mexico by this administration.

We have used up all of our get-out-of-jail-free cards.

Highlight the Muslim American community as a key example of America's vibrant pluralism.

I think giving people an opportunity to kind of read history and see history is really an extraordinary thing.

I think we need to consider local situations, empower our leaders on the scene to be able to make choices and make decisions.

The most powerful economic-political machine in the history of the world--the United States--is spending one-third on satellite television than Al Jazeera is spending on theirs.

I want to bring my colleagues' attention to an important hearing held this past Wednesday by the Judiciary Committee. We have been focused on the economy over the past few weeks, and particularly on the recovery bill that will soon start…

the behavior of Wall Street executives, investment bankers, the credit agencies, mortgage brokers, and other players in the recent financial meltdown was complicated, tangled, a confluence of many factors--and in the end, devastating to…

as we struggle to restore growth and hope to our economy, we must continue to repair the weaknesses in our legal and regulatory system weaknesses that contributed to the crisis we face today. A lot of what has happened to our economy was…

I think my background and experience in that area can help to break down some of these things so that we don't try and either arrest our way out of a problem or we don't realize that the criminal justice system is, in fact, a significant…