So many American workers and their families have been hurting for the last three years, and they are still hurting.

You have an especially difficult job at the moment, and none of us envy you for it.

General, will you or your staff keep me posted on how it goes? Because I want to--I really do have a very strong interest in this.

I don't think they're getting techniques over the Internet. There is obviously some systematic training.

the vast majority of our American men and women follow orders, do it very professionally, and make every single Member of the United States Senate proud.

I said for those who have said this--suggested this at the hearing today.

this is not a partisan issue, and you certainly have not made it one--who are very, very concerned.

Apparently not in Iraq

I'm sorry that some of our closest allies and friends, like Mexico and Canada, even the countries that you dismissingly called 'Old Europe,' were alienated because they disagreed with our strategy of preemptive war.

I'm sorry that the President taunted Iraqi resistance fighters to 'bring it on' while our troops were still in harm's way.

I'm sorry that someone in the administration 'gave currency to a fraud,' to quote George Will, by putting, in the President's State of the Union speech, that Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Africa.

Al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq when we started this war. They are there now.