I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

The regime must allow immediate and unrestricted access to every site, every document, and every person identified by inspectors. Iraq can be certain that the old game of cheat-and-retreat tolerated at other times will no longer be tolerated.

What matters is that in this Iraq campaign that we clarify the different points of view. And there are a lot of people in the Democratic Party who believe that the best course of action is to leave Iraq before the job is done. Period. And they're wrong. And the American people have got to understand the consequence of leaving Iraq before the job is done. We're not going to leave Iraq before the job is done and we'll complete the mission in Iraq.

About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

But oftentimes I'm asked, why? Why do you care what happens outside of America?