If you're going to be the transparency president, and if you're going to libel the brave men and women who conducted this program, and if you're going to release information that helps the terrorists, at least you ought to release the…

The question that you should be asking is, when a terrorist has information about an attack on the United States, is it the obligation of the president to, within the law, be able to get that information and save American lives?

But the president won't let the American people see. He was in the National Archives today, which is the building where these memos are housed. He could have walked up the stairs to the second floor of that building, and, with his pen…

I have no doubts at all, no reservations and no regrets. And, in fact, I feel that we all owe a debt of gratitude to the men and women at the CIA who carried out this program.

I think it is the height of irresponsibility for the president to release those techniques, so that, you know, the terrorists can train to them, and now we have our hands tied.

What the president has done is ensure that no future president can use any of these techniques. So, that's a big step. And that's a step that I think really does endanger the country.

I think that it is a moral obligation to stand up and say, wait a second.

I don't think that our political system was designed so that, when a party takes power, immediately, the opponents are silenced.

He is pandering to Europe.

Because of that, he feels very strongly that he's got an obligation to speak out.

But my dad feels very strongly that what the current administration's doing is making the country less safe, dismantling the policies that they put in place after 9/11 that were very much focused on what we needed to do to prevent a future…

I think that when my dad was secretary of defense, it was as the cold war was ending. We clearly were ratcheting back.

It's an issue that, you know, deserves discussion, deserves debate.

I think it's an issue that, you know, deserves discussion, deserves debate. It's an issue that I'm comfortable with what my dad said in Iowa a couple of weeks ago.

You have a consistent record all along of Senator Kerry voting against weapons systems, voting for a nuclear freeze.

I think what President Bush believes is that when you're at war, the issue of money to support the troops... should never be complicated.

What I hear from women as I travel around the country is very much they want a leader who's got political courage to make tough decisions.

You know, and I think it's an issue that he doesn't want us to look at too closely, frankly.