Katrina did not declare a truce on Iraq.

Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.

If you have a large bloc of Americans who believe you're trying to keep their ... fellow Hispanics down and deprive them of an opportunity, obviously that's going to have an effect...The Republican Party has failed to understand to a significant degree the importance of this issue to our Hispanic voters. I think the trend will continue of lack of support from Hispanic voters and also as you look at the demographics of states like mine, that means we will go from Republican to Democrat over time.

We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies.

I can tell you that I think America is safer today than it was on 9/11. But that doesn't mean that we don't have a long way to go.

The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.

I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side. But there are a number of members of Congress who have primaries and when those primaries are done, they may be more inclined to address the issue of comprehensive immigration reform.