We need to have someone who has the ability to establish a national program, allocate resources, and be held accountable for our response against terrorism.

I think in the best of worlds, had the information that was available been seen by one set of human eyes or a common group of human eyes, a pattern might have emerged which would...

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn...

When units come back they usually do an inventory of what gear they have and what is damaged or missing. When a unit comes in to check out, they need to have a missing or...

This may be heresy to admit, but it’s the record.

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

This president failed to tell the American people what he knew about the consequences of military victory in Iraq,

The men and women of America’s armed forces and all citizens representing the U.N., and other nations must be reassured in times like these that they have our whole-hearted support and are in our prayers...

The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.

We should first give the Syrians and the Lebanese the opportunity to clean up their own house, … That is a more serious threat to the United States in my judgment than Saddam Hussein.

We failed to see relationships that we should have. We failed to communicate from one agency to the other. Those are part of what we are learning today,

With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can’t learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they’ve learned not to use the telephone.

We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of...

The herd instinct is as strong with multimillionaires as it is with any two- or four-legged animal.

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was...

I believe the war in Iraq has actually reduced our ability to effectively carry out that war against terrorism. It has shattered our alliances that will be critical to success in the war on terrorism....

We’ve just had a case in which some of our important national secrets have been stolen over a period of 15 years,

The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of...

The attacks of September 11th could have been prevented if the right combination of skill, cooperation, creativity and some good luck had been brought to the task.

If you think back to some of the Democratic governors who you are most proud of, people like LeRoy Collins, Reubin Askew and Lawton Chiles, Jim is in that mode, … He is smart. He...

see how that negotiation [with the Department of Justice] goes.

Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that...

The president is clearly making a judgment that it is more important for us to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan than it is to deal with the very serious problems that we have in the United...

Inaction can no longer be our policy, … To do so will ensure that Haiti is ruled by thugs and criminals.

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

It is not always easy for a Cuban-American to be a vocal Democrat in Miami-Dade County,

At least two people have been killed who were involved in this. And we don’t know how many others have been compromised. It’s important that we understand what happened so that we can be in...

The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of...

We’re not so much focusing on making a criminal case as we are trying to understand what our national security risks are and then how we can harden American and our vital interests around the...

That’s an issue that Sen. Kerry will address at the appropriate time.

These problems raise the fundamental issue of a citizen’s confidence in the voting process,

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

more than the federal government will spend on education this year, twice as much as the federal government will spend on our roads, bridges, highways and public transit systems.

I can’t think of anyone who has been significantly sanctioned for their bad performance,

I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It’s...

To the best of my recollection, there is nothing inconsistent or contradictory in that testimony and what Mr. Clarke has said this week,

By continuing to classify that information so that it’s not available to the American people, the American people have been denied important information for their own protection, for the protection of the communities,

The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to...

You know what my grandchildren call me? ‘Doodle,’ … And when I’m really good, they call me ‘Super Doodle.’

People might have disagreed with him, but they recognized that his views came from a deep and creative mind.

And that’s what this bill is all about: assuring that each and every voter can have confidence in our elections and that when problems do arise, there can be a determination made about them —...

The premature conclusion of our presidential campaign was a great disappointment, … However, it was not without its rewards. I am proud of the issues we raised, which are now becoming the central issues of...

admiring of the diplomatic skills that President Bush has displayed throughout this incident. He was able to keep the matter contained, keep it within appropriate diplomatic channels and avoid this incident from becoming a major...

None of that was shared with the American people. And so we went to war, not only on the basis of weapons of mass destruction that we may or may not find, but [we] went...

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.

An error on the part of poll workers pressing the wrong button to activate voting machines prevented many from voting in the Democratic primaries.

very effective in taking a question and then elaborating on issues that are largely irrelevant to the question in order to chew up the clock.

The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda.

A plug-in vehicle with even a 20-mile range could reduce petroleum fuel consumption by about 60 percent.

Combat operations haven’t ended and President Bush’s parsing of words does nothing but damage any confidence the American people have in their government’s policy in Iraq,