Politics should stop at the water's edge.

the troops are best served when the people here in Washington find a way to produce a policy that lives up to the high sacrifice that they're called on to make.

the ultimate choices, again, about the country's future, about Pakistan's future, must be made--and will be made, in my judgment--by the Pakistanis themselves.

the consent of the American people, in the end, is the fundamental part of this equation.

The partnership between President Truman and Senator Arthur Vandenberg at the outset of the cold war exemplified that kind of partnership.

the final product of 8 months of more intensive study by more devoted minds than I have ever known to concentrate upon any one objective in all my 20 years in Congress.

If this administration today truly believed in the Marshall Plan and what it stood for, it would be more open to working with Congress before committing vast sums for foreign aid.

Secretary Rumsfeld, where is the mandate from the American people to carry out the reconstruction of Iraq?

The American people, from whom the power of our government originates, have never been asked for their mandate for democratizing Iraq.