Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.

I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.

People talk about [Bashar] Assad running Syria. He doesn't control his own country. He's down to about 20, 25 percent of the country. What is this fiction that he is somehow the only person who can save Syria? There's - with Assad there, there is no Syria. So that's what the Iranians and the Russians need to really begin to focus in on.

I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.

We should focus more on the things we've accomplished, but I mean, obviously Syria disturbs me greatly and I'm not happy with where Syria is.

For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.