"A new process without the right support would be overwhelming."
"Your acknowledgment that we're not winning in Iraq, frankly, is a necessary, refreshing breath of reality that is so needed."
"I would like the president to tell the Iraqi leaders that we are going to begin a phased redeployment of our troops from Iraq in four to six months."
"It's not as though chaos will result if we leave; it's that chaos is there right now."
"The president cannot, any longer, get away with the status quo and stay the course, stay the course, stay the course."
"They also, I think, saw in the nominee a person who is very, very willing to reach out across party lines to the Congress on a bipartisan basis, to get the -- the best advice that possibly the Congres..."
"This is not a precipitous proposal. It's something which would allow for planning."
"We are bloody impatient. And the problem is Iraqis' political leadership."
"The important thing with Mr. Gates is whether or not he is independent, whether or not he is going to speak truth to power."
"I'm not going to vote no because I voted no 15 years ago."
"It ignores the realities on the ground to say that absolutely we are winning in Iraq, everybody's losing in Iraq at the moment and until there's a political settlement, they're going to continue to lo..."