In the case of ground forces, which will take weeks to deploy should they be necessary, we should begin now to plan for the logistics of such a mission and to ensure that appropriate personnel...

Is this a great country or what?

I believe that it is the way to bring this trial to an earlier ending on a less partisan note that makes clear that though the president will not be removed from office — which...

has shaken the public’s confidence in the ability of government at all levels to protect them in a crisis.

It is essential that I get a first-hand look at the recovery work under way on the Gulf Coast and hear directly from those involved,

There’s a lot of personal and political controversy around this decision, but it just seems to me that this was a group of professionals, of health experts, who made a decision based on what’s best...

The Bush administration seems intent on compromising the beauty and tranquility of the great natural gifts that we’ve been given here in the United States of America. The president says he’s a compassionate conservative. But...

[Bush’s] economic plan could fit on the back of a shampoo bottle: ‘cut taxes, increase spending, borrow, repeat.’ If he keeps repeating that plan, he will surely endanger Social Security benefits and slow our economy...

did what he has to do in this speech and in the ones that will follow in the next weeks, which is to shore up American support, to remind the American people why we must...

When the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee says that, you know you’re going to get it.

Leadership on the American side and the European side can bring us closer, … hate us all equally.

We must ensure that the national nightmare that was Katrina never happens again.

In regards to president Bush, I think that everything that he has done thus far has been right on target, just right and the point is to concentrate on what we all want to have...

You’ve got to count all the votes. The election is not over until you do.

Remember that we’re all Americans, … We have a higher interest than our partisan interests — the national interests.

I don’t know of anybody who was attacking the president for attacking the terrorists,

We’ve got a week to try to bring this bill to a vote, and I think the president clearly wants it, … I can’t believe the speaker, who also wants this bill, is not even...

It sounds … great,

You know, the president ought to call in his former colleagues from the oil industry, sit them down at the table, and say, ‘Look, this is wrong. Draw a line somewhere. We don’t want to...

If we reorganize and reform the enormous human and technological intelligence assets America has, as the commission has recommended, we will be able to see, hear and stop the terrorist attacks against us before they...

George Bush seems to want to run against Bill Clinton, who’s not on the ballot this year, … They’re not running against the Clinton/Gore record because it’s been so good. It’s not real fair to...

good news, encouraging news, but not enough to say that it’s a recovery.

The debate going on between us is really a debate about whether we want to take the Democratic Party back to where it was before Bill Clinton transformed it in 1992, or whether we want...

… Sometimes, we try to stifle that fact or hide it, … But the profound, and ultimately most important, reality is that we are not only citizens of this blessed country, we are citizens of...

How can we teach our children that every vote counts if we are not willing to make a good-faith effort to count every vote?

I hope that all of us in both parties who have said that we have to stay in Iraq and finish the job in pursuit of our own values and of our own security will...

Are we sitting back like couch potatoes and watching the systemic elimination of all the lines that separate the acceptable and the unacceptable in our culture?

Do a cup of Joe with Joe.

I congratulated him, I wished him well,

I have decided tonight to end my quest for the presidency, … difficult, but realistic decision.

When you are asking the American people to support you for president, you have to be able to take a clear position for what you think is right for the country and stick with it,...

I am personally committed to creating a chief information officer in government to coordinate our efforts,