It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact that several Iraqi army divisions have melted away.

The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

We should be hell bent on getting those weapons of mass destruction, hell bent on having a credible approach to them, but we should try to do it in a way which keeps the world together and that achieves our goal which is removing the... defanging Saddam.

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.