Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

There is no question that Iraq possesses biological and chemical weapons and that he [Saddam Hussein] seeks to acquire additional weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. That is not in debate. I also agree with President Bush that Saddam Hussein is a threat to peace and must be disarmed, to quote President Bush directly.

I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.

The world changed on September 11, 2001.

The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.

I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.