Mitch McConnell

The movement is gaining steam. We have seen it in both the Rhode Island trial and in three or four appellate court decisions, all of which have ruled against the lead paint industry.

This is a particularly bad time to be sending the message to the terrorists in Iraq that we might be thinking of running just when they're running.

America reaffirmed its role as the world's sole superpower in responding to a crisis literally half a world away in a generous and timely manner.

I appreciate your appearing before the Committee today as it underscores the importance the Administration places on the pending fiscal year 2005 Emergency Supplemental.

I share the view that the United States should help those who help us in the Global War on Terror.

I know there's some resistance in the Defense Department about the way the intelligence is going to be shifted around.

Do you share my view that the reconstruction is extremely important in allowing us to ultimately exit the country?

I don't think we ought to try to fund the war out of the priorities that help rearrange our military for the 21st century.

I want to commend you for that decision. I don't think you could have picked a better person to do it.

Israel has a right to defend itself, it has lost people.

So there's been some improvement but not nearly enough? Would that be a way to describe it?

To what extent does sticking to the June 30 transfer date and handing over at least the political authority in Iraq to an Iraqi entity undermine terrorists' arguments in Iraq, or elsewhere for that matter?

To what extent is the well-publicized decision by Spain and Honduras to withdraw their troops from Iraq going to embolden terrorists or in general create a problem for us?

To be sure there can be no armistice or peace treaty with terrorists.

Hamas and terrorists should stop violence and to allow some positive developments to take place.

There will be some additional questions which will be submitted for your response in the record.

Okay, thank you, Senator Leahy.

Our current-day enemies are as ruthless as the Nazis and as devious as the kamikaze pilots who struck without warning.

Thank you, Senator Shelby and Senator DeWine for staying to the end.

Some in this country have argued, and you certainly have heard the argument, that the effort in Iraq is somehow detracting from the war on terrorism.

To the extent that terrorists have gone to Iraq, that's a pretty good place to fight them, is it not?

no man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

Is the answer to my question yes, you're confident that U.S. tax dollars----

There are some that have suggested that by going on offense and taking the fight to the terrorists we're creating more terrorists.

Well, the BBC/ABC poll taken of Iraqi citizens back in February, which got remarkably little coverage in this country, was a clear indication that the Iraqi people feel that they're a lot better off than they were a year ago.