The election could lead to a change for the better, which is everybody's hope, but it might be a step toward crisis and toward all-out civil war.

We've got to hope that he will take steps to end the stress on the forces, because this force is under huge stress, ... He's seen firsthand that mistakes have been made. He could forcefully decide that he's going to speak out and speak up.

After the war started, the administration began an effort to change the subject of the debate from the actual presence of weapons of mass destruction to WMD programs, then to WMD-related program activities and more recently to speculation about intentions,

I think the only hope that we have, really, of redeeming ourselves here and winning back some of the support that this incident has cost us [is] if we act as an open society that will deal with problems openly, that will hold people accountable.

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

In many regards, what is most notable about the President's budget is not what is in the plan, but what has been left out.