President Bush made a superb choice in selecting you for this position.

If we are going to combat SARS, or terrorism for that matter, there are a lot of other nations we have got to be involved with.

The irony would be if Iran became less of a theocracy, more of a democracy, and the opposite happened in Iraq.

You are doing an excellent job. You have been an invaluable voice of reason and moderation for the Administration's foreign policy.

I encourage the State Department to seize every opportunity to strengthen the hand of the democratic opposition in the run up to these polls.

That is a misstatement of history. Diplomacy achieved important results, including a unanimous vote in the U.N. Security Council.

It is disturbing that key officials in this Administration seem determined to weaken the State Department.

I think he has been an invaluable voice for our country.

I reject that view. I believe his attacks against people who work for you are unfair and misguided.

It is clear that additional sanctions against the junta in Rangoon are warranted, and I intend to introduce legislation to this effect in the very near future.

The Ayatollahs in Iran make no secret of the fact that they want very much for a new government in Iraq to resemble theirs in Iran.

It is clear that additional sanctions against the junta in Rangoon are warranted, and I intend to introduce legislation to this effect in the very near future.

Having requested all this money, billions of dollars for coalition partners, we have only $2 billion for first responders here.

We are in a two-front war in one sense. One is war in Iraq.

Are you coming back in the weeks and months ahead for more fiscal year 2003 money?

I looked at some of the pictures of United States aid, food, and what-not, arriving in Southern Iraq.

Should there not be something in the supplemental if you have all of these hundreds of thousands of displaced Afghans?

Well, last year, nothing was requested. Senator McConnell and I found money and put it in.

I just want it for terrorism. I am worried about terrorism.

I know you are committed, the President is committed, General Myers, and everybody else is committed to getting aid there.

The Administration has decided to ask for $8 billion of assistance to foreign nations that it considers helpful in the war against Iraq.

So your answer is no to look at it.

The question is, how much, when, and why?

I am always interested in what you find out on anthrax and such issues.

It is said that you have one of the most difficult jobs in Washington and I am sure there are days you believe that.