We now have irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it to sufficiently high grade, so that it will function as the base material as a nuclear weapon. And there's no doubt about the fact that the level of effort has escalated in recent months.

We live in a free society, and freedom means freedom for everybody. We shouldn't be able to choose and say, 'You get to live free and you don't.' That means people should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. Like Joe (Lieberman), I'm also wrestling with the extent to which there ought to be legal sanction of those relationships. I think we ought to do everything we can to tolerate and accommodate whatever kind of relationships people want to enter into.

I want to avoid personal attacks, ... I promise not to make fun of your singing.

I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.

I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.