Jim Webb

I think the American people pretty well have spoken on that, when you look at the vote counts that came in.

I ran on three basic themes. One was reorienting our national defense structure.

We have to get a transition going, so that we can have a smooth process from the George Allen people into ours.

I would like to also, today, call on our president to publicly denounce the campaign tactics that have divided us, rather than brought us together.

This was a brutal campaign, and, in -- in many ways, an unnecessarily brutal campaign. And I think it's hurting the country.

The campaign is over.

You don't have a strategy if you can't articulate the end point.

I think we've reached the point here where most of the people in this country will -- want a positive solution, want an answer.

And the third is the accountability of this administration.

The second theme is economic fairness, with the breakdown of our society in a way that we probably haven't seen since the 1880s in the age of globalization.

I ran on three basic themes. One was reorganizing our national defense structure.

We have to get a transition going so that we can have a smooth process from the George Allen people into ours.

We all go out. We vote. We argue. We vote.

We must reorder our national offense and our foreign policy after this debacle in Iraq.

George Allen is wrong on foreign policy. He's one of the reasons that we are in this disaster in Iraq.

I have led a literary career. And I'm very proud of it.

We can go and read Lynne Cheney's lesbian love scenes if you want to, you know, get graphic on stuff.

Those incidents either were illuminating characters or showing the average reader environments around the world.

I'm a serious writer. I mean, we can go and read Lynne Cheney's lesbian love scenes, if you want to, you know, get graphic on stuff.

I think it's absolutely -- you know, to -- to -- to pull, you know, one and two sentences out of a body of work, and try to use it for political purposes, is just absurd. And -- and -- and they know that.