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.

All his experts have said to him as well as me it would take three years to do that, … He didn’t say that he was going to take up France and Germany on their...

If the European countries that are there in Bosnia now all decide to pull out … when we take out the land forces, I think it will make it very difficult to get the vote...

We have been stonewalled from the beginning, … The main question is: Did Bolton attempt to badger or attempt to change the views of intelligence officers?

I think he’s got a lot of explaining to do, and depending on how he does, I think will determine whether or not he has a problem or not.

We don’t expect the general to come with a detailed plan of the administration’s priorities, but to get a sense of what their concerns are.

Go ahead and continue not to answer.

. . . once we decided to focus on Iraq, we went to war too soon. We went without the rest of the world, and we went under false premises.

We need a regional strategy that persuades Iraq’s neighbors to wield their influence with the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds for political compromise. They will do it, because no one other than the terrorists has an...

That is not true, judge,

It acknowledges that the Security Council fully understands that this is the world’s problem — Iraq is the world’s problem — not just the United States problem, and that failure to secure the peace in...

I don’t think we should filibuster,

Ultimately, all the federal government does is not going to be able to get the job done without your aid.

It is a stark reminder that no progress on reconstruction can be made in Iraq without establishing security. And, clearly, this is not just a problem for the U.S., but for the whole world,

What’s the plan, Stan, tell us,

DOJ (Department of Justice) has told us repeatedly that there’s a formal response working its way through red tape channels, but still nothing,