It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.

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

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.

We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.

If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.

Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But regime change in and of itself is not sufficient justification for going to war--particularly unilaterally--unless regime change is the only way to disarm Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction pursuant to the United Nations resolution.