While Secretary Rumsfeld and I have had our differences, he deserves Americans' respect and gratitude for his many years of public service.

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.

Stocks have tanked. Shouldn't you have asked for that money back?

I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to his colleagues in the Senate and the American people that he is absolutely opposed to any segregation in any form and racism in any form and discrimination in any form.

They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges.

The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.

I have no rancor. I look forward, not backwards.