If I think he will be Justice (Antonin) Scalia … I vote no. If he is a (Justice Anthony) Kennedy, I vote yes. If he is a Rehnquist, I probably vote yes because it won’t...

That’s malarkey, … You are obliged to comment. That’s your judgment we’re looking at. … We’re looking for candor.

Relations with many of our oldest friends are, quite frankly, scraping the bottom right now,

Ask any of the people making over 360 grand, would they forgo one year of the 10 years beginning in 2005 in order to win this? I’ve not found anybody who’s said no, … Fox...

We are rolling the dice with you.

We’re losing them because they look over there and they think ? there’s this giant gap between what they see and the rhetoric they hear.

We have to do more to reach out and get the rest of the world in on the game,

This interim government needs an infusion of a modest amount of capital in days, not weeks, not months,

We should not focus on the issue of whose scalp should be delivered. We should be talking about what we are going to do quickly, dramatically and graphically about the circumstance we find ourselves in...

To begin within, I’m only talking about $30 [million], $40 million sum total for a year … so the government can have desks, telephones, lights and pay the salaries, … We are trying to assess...

People are going to have to make choices. How it all plays out I’m not smart enough to know, but I’m worried.

[Drug companies] have these precursors to steroids that have the same properties and also diminish health,

One of the things that’s been amazing is you are one of the best witnesses that I think has come before this committee and I’ve been here 30-some years.

rivals in the bureaucracy, both inferior and superior to him.

We’ve got ourselves a conundrum here.

What’s the plan, Stan? Tell us, … We are not setting timetables and saying cut and run. We are saying give us a plan.

If I think he’s going to be a Justice Scalia, who I like personally very much, I vote no. If I think he’s going to be a Kennedy, I vote yes. If I think he’s...

No. 1, on the police training, we’ve wasted 17 months,

I think we have two national emergencies: one relates to our interest in Iraq and the other in the Gulf, and I don’t think you can take from one to deal with the other, …...

We quite frankly have no policy now; there is no policy. I would not call it benign neglect; I would call it malign neglect.

I believe the federal government should stamp out discrimination wherever – wherever – it occurs, … If I look only at what you’ve said and written. . . . I would have to vote no....

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

This was all about whether or not those who had access to intelligence information in this administration used it appropriately, not just whether or not the agency was right.

It’s time for him (President Clinton) to stop saying he won’t put them on the table,

That will require the ( President George W. Bush administration) not to stay the course, but to change course, and to do it now.

[Calling the recent growth in the number of letters a] stunner, … Thirty thousand seems like an awful, awful stretch to me.

This is, if not abused, being close to abused.

As a practical matter, I don’t think the president has left us with any choice, … Meet the Press.

[Over the last three months of campaigning for chairman, he stressed no compromise on issues. When he declared last month that] I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for, … organizational skills.

They haven’t asked for one single penny for next year for Afghanistan and Iraq. Give me a break,

What everybody tells me here is, ‘Don’t think the fight against the Taliban is over,’

If, at the time the United States withdraws its combat forces the Europeans all pull out, it is going to be a very difficult sell in the United States of America,

Now they have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,

They think this is a low priority.

The devil is in the details, … It makes a great deal of difference.

He didn’t say who’s going to send more troops,

I want the president to succeed more than you can imagine. Because if his policy fails … we are going to pay a terrible price. … And I don’t quite get it why you would...

Persuading the people to let you win — that’s exactly what they’ve lost,

powers sharply limited.

It is unreasonable to ask the president of the United States to say that he will oppose bringing up this treaty during the duration of his presidency, … If that’s the price that has to...

If we do not act … by the time the snow falls next winter, there will be genocide documented on a large scale in Kosovo.

If he really believes that reapportionment is a questionable decision — that is, the idea of Baker vs. Carr, one man, one vote — then clearly, clearly, you’ll find a lot of people, including me,...

That’s a bad word, senator.

The sooner we make security the top agenda item, and utilize sufficient American and international resources to achieve it, the faster we can help Iraqis improve their lives and bring home our troops.

Eliminating these weapons of mass destruction would make Americans more secure and the world a safer place.

The idea that this new government can get up and running without having the close to $600 billion worth of debt that they have out there forgiven is preposterous,

the first time our Republican colleagues have joined Democrats in insisting on a clear Iraq strategy from this administration.

It will not sail through the Senate, … It will be a tough fight, but we will win.

Where is he going to find roughly half a trillion dollars over the next several years for Iraq and for Katrina?

[Lugar called India’s nuclear record] unsatisfying … I wonder how good the July 18 deal really is.