As I Think About The Future, I'm

The Columbia Is Lost, But The Dreams That Inspired Its Crew Remain With Us.

We Live In A Free Society, And Freedom Means Freedom For Everybody. We Shouldn't Be Able To Choose And Say, 'you Get To Live Free And You Don't.' That Means People Should Be Free To Enter Into Any Kind Of Relationship They Want To Enter Into. Like Joe (lieberman), I'm Also Wrestling With The Extent To Which There Ought To Be Legal Sanction Of Those Relationships. I Think We Ought To Do Everything We Can To Tolerate And Accommodate Whatever Kind Of Relationships People Want To Enter Into.

Let Us Rid Ourselves Of The Fiction That Low Oil Prices Are Somehow Good For The United States.

After 9/11 We Were Prepared To Use Military Force. We Were Prepared To Go After Not Only The Terrorists, But Those Who Sponsor Terror And Provide Sanctuary And Safe Harbor For Them. We Were Prepared To Use Our Intelligence Assets The Way We Would Against An Enemy That Threatened The United States Itself, To Put In Place, For Example, Things Like The Terror Surveillance Program And To Have A Robust Interrogation Program On Detainees. Those Are The Acts You Take When You Feel You're At War And That The Very Existence Of The Nation Is Threatened.

We Need To Have A Pro-growth Policy Put In Place That Offers People Hope And Offers The Opportunity For Businesses To Expand And For Them To Have Confidence In What The World Is Going To Look Like For The Next Two Or Three Or Four Years With Respect To Economic Policy.