When it’s fully in place, it will make us stronger and more secure, … There will inevitably be a time of learning who your new partners are, what the new rules and expectations are, and...

Tom DeLay and the other leadership of the House of Representatives are not going to impeach George W. Bush, … The good news is that in November of 2004, the American people will have a...

Mr. President, what else don’t we know?

I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.

[The administration] never offered the states any assistance while they were pursuing their own cases, … Johnny-come-lately attempt to share in the spoils of their victories puts these initiatives at risk.

It wouldn’t have taken a lot of luck. It would have taken someone who could have asked and gotten answers to the right follow-up questions and then put it together.

There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.

a serious question as to the credibility of the United States in the world and undercutting of confidence of the American people in the veracity of their government.

What the president is insisting upon are not new ideas, … Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

The president of the United States can’t be expected to be an intelligence analyst and a case officer,

It is, for all intents and purposes, a rest-of-your-life decision, … I have loved public service, and I have loved being in the United States Senate serving the people of Florida. The question is: is...

That will permit the Saudi government to deal with any questions which may be raised in the currently censored pages, and allow the American people to make their own judgment about who are our true...

I would extend the unemployment benefits. Many people have been weeks and weeks without being able to find a job no matter how hard they search.

Democrats have had some tradition in the past of beating themselves up in the primary and weakening their position going into the general election and that’s not going to happen in 2006.

[Nothing found is a] smoking gun, … But collectively I think there was enough there that we should have done a better job of seeing what was coming and hopefully, with luck, stopping it.

This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody’s been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.

The people who are responsible for taking action are the same people who wrote the intelligence information that was submitted to the president.

Education needs to be a national priority, particularly getting class sizes down and hiring more teachers and helping with school construction, … He’s been emphasizing the importance of a patient’s bill of rights for those...

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and...

It’s impossible to believe that Scooter Libby … would have done this on his own determination, rather that this was part of a larger conspiracy to attempt to discredit Ambassador Wilson,

is a continuation of the pattern of the last seven months — a pattern of delay and excessive use of national security standards to deny the people the knowledge of their vulnerability.

I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also...

(Maddox has) made the decision that unity is the key to our success,

What this president has done in conducting a secretive, deceitful, highly costly war which has taken our attention off the very people who represent our greatest threat. They are not living in Iraq. They are...

We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America’s 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could...

The clock is ticking. We don’t have very much time to get these Americans back before American public opinion begins to turn very hostile toward China. I’m pleased that in the last 24 hours it...

Yesterday in Palm Beach County, Florida, the ‘oops’ factor again reared its ugly head, casting doubt in the minds of many Floridians about whether or not their vote was actually counted,

As to Hussein’s will to use whatever weapons he might have, the estimate indicated he would not do so unless he was first attacked.

And we have not gone to those nations that we know have been providing aid, assistance, and sanctuary — such as Syria — to tell them we will no longer tolerate that kind of activity,

Maybe his ascendancy will help represent a breakthrough on things

In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.

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.