Richard Cheney: “If they're competent to fight this war, then I ought to be singing on 'American Idol.'”

But the ultimate threat is the possibility of their succeeding and getting, say, a biological agent or a nuclear weapon, smuggling it into the United States, into one of our own cities, and raising the specter of -- of being able to kill…

What's most troubling about Senator Reid's comments yesterday is his defeatism. Indeed, last week he said the war is already lost. And the timetable legislation that he is now pursuing would guarantee defeat.

I think the bottom line is, was I up to the task of being vice president? And there is no question, I think, based upon the fact that I did it for eight years that they were right.

When we get people who are more concerned about the let me think the -- let me think carefully how I describe this -- more concerned with reading the rights to an al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against…