War is failure of diplomacy.

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

The harsh fact of the matter is when you're passing legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views.

I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.