It is not undignified to ask the nominee questions he would rather not answer, should he prefer to remain inscrutable or, worse yet, all things to all people.

The president is not telling us the time frame … what’s happening is that the American public is despairing of the situation,

We have to get it right but not find an excuse to act at all.

Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that don’t have anything to do with health care.

Rather than continuing with a media blitz that tries to repackage a ‘stay the course’ strategy that isn’t working, the president and his administration should give the public a plan, with a timetable, to complete...

Some have called for a dignified process. So have I. But at times, it sounds like what some really want for the nominee is an easy process,

We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should...

Unfortunately, the information available to me about this matter comes from press reports and public statements rather than from the administration directly,

The right thing for the United States right now is to refocus on the fight against terrorism,

I cannot support an Iraq policy that makes our enemies stronger and our own country weaker, and that is why I will not support staying the course the President has set,

I don’t want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care.

This proposal is unacceptable. The administration has been talking about war in Iraq for quite some time now. Surely they had the time to draft a more careful, thoughtful proposal than the irresponsibly broad and...

Without any sort of a time frame in place, we’ll never even get to that point, … Meet the Press.

The American people deserve a clear plan for concluding our military mission. And the Iraqi people need to know without any doubt that we do not intend to stay in that country indefinitely.

He’s got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, … I’m not hearing the same things at the briefings that I’m...

He is the president, not a king.

It’s one of the things I’m most certain of in my 23 years as a public official and after over 900 listening sessions or town meetings over 13 years, … This is one of the...

I believe in local control of education.

This amendment raises the very distinct prospect, which I believe all of us fear, that the entire effort will fall if the U.S. Supreme Court finds one defect, this is a critical amendment in that...

The few minor changes that the White House agreed to do not address the major problems with the Patriot Act that a bipartisan coalition has been trying to fix for the past several years. We’ve...

How much longer can the elected representatives of the American people in this Congress allow the President to rack up over a billion dollars a week in new debts? This war is draining, by one...