Like many Americans, I've always been intrigued by Bill Clinton. I obviously didn't always agree with him - enjoyed running against his legacy in 2000, when Al Gore was his designated successor, but I don't have anything negative I would say about Bill Clinton.

I think freedom means freedom for everybody.

The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.

I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.

The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.

That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.