The surge is not working. No matter how many different ways you explain it, it hasn't worked -- six months, 600 dead Americans, $60 billion.

I think we will find, in the next couple of weeks, whether the Republicans who have said publicly they think the president's course should change are willing to vote with us. We invite them to come with us. We put our arms around them.

This may happen as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gets ready to launch debate on a series of amendments to the 2008 defense budget dealing with Iraq.

Let's be realistic about this. The war in Iraq is dragging down people's confidence in what's going on in this country.

We have got work to do.

I'm not going to get into what I said or didn't say.

We're going to be able to start this probably two weeks from tomorrow.

Eighty percent of the Democrats support this immigration bill. We've done our job. I don't have to twist an arm, I don't have to pull anybody into a room to get them to try to agree to something. We've done our job -- 80 percent of the…

What this all boils down to is, the Republicans do not support their own president's bill.

And the one fact I've learned I can't get out of my mind is that Rudy Giuliani has been married more times than Mitt Romney has been hunting.

This bill is something that the country needs. And the Senate needs to do this. I hope that we can figure out a way to do it.

This is a bill that will never, ever make a majority of the Republicans happy. It doesn't matter what we do.