I have made the judgment that I cannot be elected president, … All of those things combined to make it difficult for us to have the time and to close the gap in organization and...

I am extremely pleased that the Chinese are releasing our servicemen. It was unfortunate that they didn’t do this several days earlier.

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

It’s not surprising that there is a statement that bin Laden is still alive. That’s the best assessment of U.S. intelligence.

[ ‘ First out of the box was John Kerry, whose statement was sent out at 10:01 p.m. EDT. Kerry said he was] disappointed … brought an important perspective to this campaign that will be...

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

[? Florida Sen. Bob Graham and Sen.-elect Bill Nelson — both Democrats — warned against] a rush to judgment … would have been an act that would have bled off some of the poison that...

It is not constructive to have two of your most important agencies perceived as having a fight, almost a children’s playground fight, … This is going to be a difficult, challenging period, and we all...

It’s fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in...

We have no intention to let this incident preclude us from continuing those flights.

I have had a full and joyful and I hope productive life, and I intend to have other chapters that will meet those same standards,

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional, or CBW (chemical and biological weapons) against the United States, … Should Saddam conclude that a U.S.-led attack could...

Democracy is a fragile institution.

Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq-a war more than a year away.

did not resolve the many contradictions between various accounts of what actions the Bush administration took in response to the threat of terrorism prior to 9/11.

What I found most notable about President Bush’s remarks was that he began to prepare the people for the potential long-term consequence of this action, including the possibility of a protracted military engagement, the hopefully...

The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup.

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.