They think this is a low priority.

[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,’

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

powers sharply limited.

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...

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.

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,...

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.

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.

Why can’t the president do that? We’re losing the American people, and that is a disaster,

If we do not enforce that, with the world along with us, then what we do is we make a mockery of the efficacy of the U.N. in the future,

He said this isn’t one of these deals where it’s being set up for failure,

are playing a game here, a gambit here, but that doesn’t mean we can’t out-negotiate them.

This shouldn’t be a game of ‘gotcha,’ you know. We shouldn’t be playing a game. The folks have a right to know what you think. You’re there for life,

Judge, if I looked only at what you’ve said and written in the past, I’d feel compelled to vote no.

They know they have to make changes. They both said, ‘Give us some time.

Why aren’t they asking for it? They don’t know? We already know it’s going to cost at least a minimum of $60 billion to keep the troops there,

For a government to maintain any credibility, it has to have the ability to pay people’s salaries, turn on the lights, be able to have desks, telephones … etc.

I still believe we can preserve our fundamental security interests in Iraq as we begin to redeploy our forces, … That will require the administration not to stay the course, but to change course, and...

I call that groping. It sounds like a man who is going down and decides to try to throw something to his supporters, … Face the Nation.

I think that’s a big mistake.

Why aren’t we able to outsmart the French, in terms of the world stage and get the control of this issue, by bringing the responsibility back to the world, so we don’t pay the whole...

That’s if we do it to you, … Go ahead and continue to not answer.

We discussed…in broad strokes, the aid that’s already going to help the Afghan people, … the need to put together a broader coalition, probably under the mandate of the United Nations, but with our strong...

Look, Kenneth Starr is no box of chocolates,

We all operated on bad information. But the only ones who took the information that was most questionable and asserted it as fact were the administration.

The new Violence Against Women Act provides a comprehensive approach to combating domestic violence and sexual assault, … It stiffens penalties for repeat offenders, provides more money for vital services and will help battered women...

This is the very man who may have to take the case to the world on Korea and on Iran based upon intelligence. … I believe this appointment is damaging to our national interests.

This may be the most significant vote any of us cast this year, in terms of America’s security interests.

If we get to the point and vote witnesses, we will have approved a process by which we will ensure that they have a chance to depose those witnesses first and so on, … It...

This is your chance to explain what you meant,

It is time for a little grace and dignity here, … It is time for someone to step forward and take a hit for the team. It is time for us to demonstrate that this...

It is like pitching to Ken Griffey.

Well, I think based upon that job application where he said he strongly held these views, yes.

The fact that he questioned abortion and the idea of quotas is one thing. The fact that he questioned the idea of the legitimacy of the reapportionment decisions of the Warren Court is even something...

Staying the course is clearly something the American people will not follow ? will not follow. So tell us, what are the standards?

does not appear to share the same expansive view of fundamental rights of previous nominees I have supported. I’m unwilling to take the constitutional risk at this moment in the court’s history.

between the rhetoric here in Washington and the reality on the ground.

I’m talking about people … who will come in here with guns and understand that they don’t have to check with anybody before they return fire,