This is about changing course in Iraq and the president demonstrating to the American people. He understands America cannot stay the course when the present course is taking our country in the wrong direction.

They have run this play one too many times. It is the same speeches that they have given before. And all the speeches in the world do not change what's going on, on the ground in Iraq. And, as we have heard here, the ground in Iraq is not…

President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld's speeches are increasingly disconnected from the facts on the ground in Iraq.

Success in Iraq is a question of strategy. And the president's strategy after three years, according to Reid, is failing.

Hopefully, her surprise visit to Lebanon is not a continuation of the Bush photo-op -- photo-op foreign policy. 'Mission accomplished.' 'Bring 'em on.' I hope it's not a photo-op again, but a serious effort to follow up calls for American…

We brought down the national debt by about a half a trillion dollars. So please, let's not boast about a $300 billion deficit.

I -- I think that the aura of power that the president thinks he has does not exist.

These terms that my friends like to throw around, cut and run, tax and spend. The American people know what's going on here. They know what's going on.

It's clear that congressional Republicans stand alone in opposition to troop redeployments, apart from the American people.

We don't need a September or October surprise, with the president and Republicans proclaiming victory and announcing troop redeployment just in time for the midterm elections.

It is clear that Congressional Republicans stand alone in opposition to troop redeployments, apart from the American people.

We don't need a September or October surprise with a president and Republicans proclaiming victory and announcing troop redeployment just in time for the midterm elections.