We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.