We're interested in it because it would provide a land bridge up to Uzbekistan, which provides us, among other things, a humanitarian pathway for us to move supplies out of Central Asia and down into Afghanistan.

I'm a pretty serious Independent.

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.