These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.

We need a new approach to national security - a bold, progressive internationalism that stands in stark contrast to the too often belligerent and myopic unilateralism of the Bush Administration.

I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.

Assassination, kidnappings and suicide attacks have become too much the standard operating procedure in the Islamic world. So much so that the name of Islam itself has been diminished in the eyes of many people. It is the responsibility of all of us, and particularly those in the Islamic world who care about their religion, to rescue it from its increased association with violence.

Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.

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