I never sought to privatize Social Security.

But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.

This is nothing new. It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.

I think all members of Congress are very concerned about the fact that, while we want to see our law enforcement agencies have every means they can possibly have to combat terrorism, we've got to remember that we've had a Constitution in place for 225 years, and it has served us well.