Kay Bailey Hutchison: “That's very positive. And I'm glad to hear you say that, because the sharing, obviously, is going to create efficiency.”

let me just say that is not the only thing we could do. We could change the cost of living to the chained consumer price index. That would be OK. It wouldn't get us as much of a deficit reduction over 75 years--a chained CPI--but it would…

Promoting American values is always important. Our strength is in our values, and our values are respect for human rights for all citizens.

The enlargement process has and will continue to serve as a particularly effective vehicle for promoting democratic values.

I have visited U.S. troops in harm's way in every conflict that we had when I was in the Senate.