Great Challenges Confront Our Great

It's Pretty Standard Fare In Political Discourse. You Misconstrue What Somebody Said. You Isolate A Statement, You Lend Your Interpretation To It And Then Feign Moral Outrage. And Democrats Have Been Doing It For Years.

There Is No Greater Breach Of The Public Trust Than Knowingly Misleading The Country Into War. In A Democracy, We Simply Cannot Tolerate The Abuse Of This Trust By The Government.

We Owe Our Troops The Opportunity To Serve In The Best-planned, Best-equipped, And Best-led Military Force In The World, And We Owe Them The Peace Of Mind That Comes From Knowing That They And Their Families Will Be Taken Care Of If They Sacrifice Life, Limb Or The Ability To Sleep Without War's Nightmares. We Owe Them Not Just Thanks And Best Wishes, But Action, And Action In Our Nation's Capital.

I Think That For Many Of Us, The Years Of The Civil Rights Movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy Running For President In 1968 To End The War And So Forth - These Were Defining Moment In Terms Of Trying To Hold Government Accountable And Have A Level Of Responsibility And Truth-telling.

I'm Not Insensitive To The Jobs. I'm Desperately Concerned About Those Jobs. But You Don't Fix Them By Pandering To People And Telling Them You're Going To Shut The Door. You Have To Grow Jobs.