John Warner: “My hope and my prayers are this plan succeeds, but it succeeds by a greater and greater reliance on the Iraqi forces.”

Judging from my own experience, these four resumes constitute an extraordinary body of knowledge needed in these respective positions and needed by our country at a critical time.

It is a moving experience for me to reenter this room. I served on this committee for 30 years.

Good luck to each and every one of you, and to the importance of the confirmation process.

You're a man of courage and you take on the tough jobs in that Congress and do the very best you can to achieve working relationships.