Timothy Batten is an individual of high integrity and has given many years of service to Georgia and to the United States, … His common sense dedication to the rule of law, intellect and experience...

It’d be a good sign on the part of Nicaragua if they’d just volunteer,

This man is a conservative. He’s been a conservative all his life, and in 1985 when he was applying for a job, he reiterated that fact in his application.

We haven’t had time to calculate what the losses are,

I am unsure as to whether or not we are able to get a bill out this week or not.

When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support … He is the right person for the job.

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

Why they failed to take any action is just beyond me.

Before we can even get to the point of talking about changes that we want to make (in US farm spending), we’ve seen no indications from the Europeans that they’re going to give us greater...

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

The tobacco buyout comes at no cost to the taxpayers, and remedies the action taken by the federal government that would otherwise have pulled the rug out from under generations of families who’ve grown this...

If we don’t change the mindset within each of our intelligence agencies, it does not make any difference how much in resources we commit to those agencies, we are still going to have the same...

America is providing the kind of leadership that the world respects and the world has come to understand; that is what America stands for.

I think it certainly bodes well for the possibility for Larry being nominated. Larry is not an ultra-right-winger by any stretch, and that means the folks on the left shouldn’t have great objection to him.

I don’t know what Katrina is going to do to budget reconciliation overall, … There’s simply no way that we can carry out the agenda that we had in place at the end of July,...

I’m concerned about the cost, just like everybody else, … there’s no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild.

likely will result in a systemic intelligence failure.

I know my 48th Brigade has been through some difficult times, … It’s a tough job. It’s a dangerous job. On behalf of all Americans I want to thank you.

We’ve got to keep developing this, … We’ve got to continue to outsmart them.

This important program will fund a wide range of community and education initiatives.

Americans took 13 years to draft their constitution and here, we’re asking the Iraqis to do it in a short period of time,

Had that information been shared with other agencies … who knows what may have happened?

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.

Every time we have these photographs dribbled out or some expansion of that situation, it is not good for America, … And we need to conclude it. And getting all of these photographs out at...

We don’t know where we are going.

I think the nation’s been challenged to make sure that everybody participates in winning the war on terrorism.

the details of any presidential plan or administration plan to provide for the future of the Iraqi people. What the president said all along is that the Iraqi people are going to decide that.

America has long been the leader of the free world. But we did not get there in an easy way. Likewise, Iraq is not going to get there in an easy way.

The Guard is different in the respect that these folks are seen around town every day, driving a deputy sheriff’s patrol car or working at the 7-11 or teaching high school, … These are everyday...

But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we’re going to spend.

Japan is well beyond the time for assessing scientific reasoning, and diplomatic efforts attempted repeatedly by the president, by our trade emissaries, and by the U.S. Congress,

His critics over the last several weeks have been saying the president has no plan,

The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.

I expect Congress to reject them again.

Japan’s inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.

That information should have been given to us, and it wasn’t.

Well, tonight he spelled out the plan we’ve been operating under and that we’re going to move forward with to create an independent Iraq and turn the government of Iraq over to the Iraqi people.

There’s always somebody who wants to take a shot at the peanut program,

We will continue to work for deficit reduction that will not burden farmers, particularly after the high fuel costs and extreme weather of the 2005 crop year, and without harming the mutually-beneficial relationship between farmers...

I haven’t decided where I stand,

The backbone of our nation’s domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.

I have a hard time understanding why someone who is so opposed to displaying our most sacred symbol of patriotism would want to join one of our government’s most patriotic institutions.

It’s not that it was our time, but you can only go so long with so many bases and not be part of the process,

Congress did not pass last year’s 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again.

The president of the United States was very focused from the very day he took office, and Mr. Clarke was a big part of the team that prepared him … on the issue of terrorism,

We started this for the right reasons, … We’re on the right track. It is a very, very difficult and complex track. But in order to get there, it is going to require the presence...

whoever is the next director is going to have to be open to serious reform.

He’s going to be grilled pretty good about what happened, how it happened and how far up the chain it looks like it went.

I don’t want to put any farmers at risk under the next farm bill. I want to do everything we possibly can to make sure we don’t lose another case that is considered trade-distorting by...

Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.