I'm for ethanol, and I think it's a very important partial ingredient of the overall mix of alternative and renewable fuels we ought to commit to.

I do think that it's really important for leaders of countries to be very clear and careful in the statements they make because their words are weighed extremely carefully by other countries, and you have to create a continuity of seriousness and of credibility in order to be able to be taken seriously and get things done.

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

What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.

I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions.

If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.