I mean, heavens to Betsy, folks, we've had the law on the books for the last 10 years. And there's not a gun owner in America who can stand up and say, They tried to take my guns away.

... win the peace. And we're spending $200 billion and counting that now doesn't go into Minnesota health care.

We need a new direction. We need statesmanship. We need leadership.

We need to really bring our allies to our side.

This president rushed to war without a plan to win the peace, and he's cost all of you $200 billion that could have gone to schools, could have gone to health care.

What Senator Kerry has been doing, which is belittling the contributions of these coalition countries.

Two hundred billion for Iraq, but they tell us we can't afford after-school programs for our children. Two hundred billion dollars for Iraq, but they tell us we can't afford health care for our veterans.

I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it.

All of this happy talk from the White House is not going to fix the problem in Iraq.

It's the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.

He had $5.6 trillion of surplus, right? He made a choice about what to do with that. A lot of us made a different choice. I voted against his plan. I thought his was the wrong choice.