We should do everything we can to ensure the American public can easily access and track how the Federal Government does its business, because we can't reduce waste, fraud, and abuse without knowing how, where, and why the federal money is flowing out of the door.

I don't think there's anything new, but I am pleased to see that the Iraq Study Group got it right. I think that for the first time what we are seeing is a bipartisan agreement about the facts on the ground.

Well, I think that what this administration has done is to become so obsessed with Iraq, and invest so much of our military, political, economic capital into Iraq, that we have been neglectful of what is one of the essential ingredients in bringing about some sort of stability in the Middle East, and that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Well, my hope is, is that if nothing else, the Iraq Study Group serves as a corrective to the kinds of obstinance that we have seen out of the White House.

I think it would be hard not to see in this report a rebuke of a ideologically-driven strategy that has the been blind to what's been happening on the ground for the last several years.

I think that what's important to recognize is that the Iraqi Study Group did a good job of describing the situation. It is up to the president and this White House to actually execute in a change of strategy.

For, only through this phased redeployment can we send a clear message to the Iraqi factions that the United States is not going to hold together this country indefinitely.

For only through this phased redeployment can we send a clear message to the Iraqi factions that the United States is not going to hold together this country indefinitely. That it will be up to them to form a viable government that can effectively run and secure Iraq.

At the moment, I am not auditioning for the job. What I am going -- undergoing is a process to look at how I can be best, most useful to the American people.

Absolutely. I think -- I think the American people, at their core, are a decent people. I think that we still have prejudice in our midst, but I think that the vast majority of Americans are willing -- are willing to judge people on the basis of, you know, their ideas and their character.

But I think the important thing is not experienced per se, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney had the best resumes from Washington and initiated a fiasco in Iraq, but rather, does someone have the judgment necessary to learn from experience and make good decisions.