This is a time for us to make a sacrifice.
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Columbia, South Carolina Remarks at a Fundraising Reception and Dinner for Charles Ravenel
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the federal, state and local government process to get the money appropriated to the families so they can start rebuilding their homes is a total disaster.
I watched him on television. I thought what he said was absolutely ridiculous. There's no rational or logic to what he had to say.
I respectfully disagree with what President Bush had to say. I don't think that the safety of America depends at all on the extended presence of U.S. troops in Iraq.
There was no reason for us to become involved in Iraq recently. That was a war based on lies and misrepresentations from London and from Washington, claiming falsely that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, claiming falsely that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. A decision was made to go to war, their people said, let's find a reason to do so.





