We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset.

America has the strongest, best-trained, best-led military force in the world, and we have failed them. Our military today is struggling in virtually every category that measures preparedness.

We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset.

Katrina did not declare a truce on Iraq.

It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.

There's one big difference between me and the others - I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I'll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation.

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.