Political Quotes

many of us believe that beginning a phased redeployment of U.S. troops from Iraq will force the Iraqis to make the tough political compromises to make progress.

There's no military solution in Iraq, and there's no military solution in Afghanistan.

The concerns that we all share are the consequences for our troops and for the Iraqi people, that will flow from a decision to redeploy.

I think that the lessons learned from the last years may be very difficult ones for any of us to learn and apply, but we have to be committed to doing so.