[If the United States and the new Afghan regime agree to the measure,] there will be the ability to literally give some of the Afghans back their money to govern themselves in the near term,...

But the end result is, I think we should end up shutting it down,

I think we can stop them from having a nuclear weapon, short of war.

With all due respect, you’ve told me nothing, … It’s kind of interesting, this kabuki dance we have in these hearings here, as if the public doesn’t have a right to know what you think...

Hey, boss, it’s not going that well. Hey, boss, read a little history.

Abortion prohibition by a state controls women and denies them full autonomy and full quality of men, it would be unconstitutional.

I look forward to working with Gen. Powell and President-elect Bush in a bipartisan manner to ensure that America’s foreign policy objectives are met.

What’s being reflected in these hearings and these discussions is there’s an overwhelming lack of confidence that the president is up to the job here since they’ve made such terrible mistakes since the end of,...

I think the probability is that will happen, … This Week.

The American public must become engaged on this issue,

They have squandered about every opportunity to get it right. The bottom line is they are significantly lowering expectations.

You better examine your conscience and figure out whether or not this is just a little slip, or that we’re about to send a man who lacks credibility, I would argue, with half of us...

September 11 indicated our country is vulnerable, … The thing we remain the least vulnerable to is an ICBM attack from another nation.

We need a civilian commitment in Iraq equal to our military one.

I’d go after him. I know the White House isn’t going to like having me say this, but I think that if Butler is able to make the case … that there is any pattern...

This guy should not be going to the U.N., … I wish the president had taken another look at this and found us someone (else).

I have no idea. I have not had one single senator on the committee tell me how they are going to vote on the Democratic side.

It comes down to a simple bet we’re making. It’s a bet that India appreciates, as much as we do, that the two nations have the potential to be the anchors for stability and security...

There is not a controversial issue in this country that does not have the prospect of coming before the court.

God love you, please do me a favor, … Start to tell us the whole deal.

This seems to me to be the perfect ploy for Saddam Hussein, … Late Edition.

not a shared burden.

National elections and elite political deals won’t lead to stability … as long as average Iraqis can’t turn on the lights, can’t drink the water, can’t step out of their homes without stepping into raw...

[But] I think that judgment won’t be made … until the bulk of us have had a chance to actually see him and speak to him, … This Week.

I think the American people are a lot smarter than that. They’ve figured this out.

Judge, if I look only at what you’ve said and written … I would have to vote ‘no,’

[In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Biden referred to the escape of Dwayne Fitzen, a drug dealer who had been in the transfer program, but fled and is now considered] armed and dangerous...

Who do you think will be more likely to yield to national pressure, Helms or Lott? … There’s only one person who can break the logjam. That’s the majority leader.

The administration has got to get its act together. Don’t give me this amorphous malarkey about we’ll stay there until the job is done.

This is poppycock that Iraq will be able to pay its way out.

We should be looking at that very closely. It appears to me that this is, if not abused, being close to abused.

Who is in charge? What role is the United Nations going to play? Is NATO going to come in? What has to be done to get NATO in, … [These are] questions that everybody knows...

We have a great deal of work left to do in Afghanistan,

This is your chance, judge, to explain what you mean by what you have said and what you have written.

Talk to me as a father, … Just philosophically, what do you think? Not what the Constitution says, what do you feel?

It was to say to the United Nations, ‘By your standards … you have not done your job relative to Saddam Hussein,’

Without any knowledge of your understanding of the law because you will not share it with us we are rolling the dice with you, judge.

You know there’s this tradition in the United States Navy that if a captain of a ship goes up on the shoals, almost regardless of whether it’s his fault or not, he loses command.

I pointed out that I had been a senator five years when I was 35, and no one says to me what you said in 1974 as a senator we can forget,

My instinct is we should commit.

[Bush said Iraq has] more than 160,000 security forces trained, … have a long way to go.

Not one word of Korea. Not one word with regard to Iraq. Not one word with regard to Iran. It’s like Wonderland,

[Biden asked Rice to tell him how many, in her opinion, have been fully trained.] Tell us how many of those folks you think — you think, … And for God’s sake, don’t listen to...

I am not accusing them of cooking the books, … I am accusing them of hyping–it’s different.

The question is whether we trade dictatorship for chaos.

Russia’s annual arms deals with Iran during the Clinton administration were only a 10th of what they were during the Bush administration, and there was no legal requirement to give Congress formal notice of the...

In the constitution, nowhere does it mention sex discrimination, child labour, segregation. It doesn’t mention it,

What happens when our ambassador has to stand up and make the case on intelligence relating to Iraq and North Korea? … Do you think John Bolton is going to be believed? And do you...

so much bigger than Karl Rove.

It is time the president tells us how he plans on getting us out of the hole he has dug us so deeply into. And just to stop digging, as the old saying goes, is...