We Must Prepare For Everything.

Well, Let's Go Back To The Original Intent Of Social Security. It Is An Insurance Contract.

History Has Shown That A Country Most Effectively Speaks With One Voice. When Nationally Elected Officials Work Together, Build Consensus, And Provide Leadership, The American People Will Follow.

The Bush Administration Must Understand That Each American Has A Right To Question Our Policies In Iraq And Elsewhere, And Should Not Be Demonized Or Condemned For Disagreeing With Them. Suggesting That To Challenge And Criticize Policy Is Undermining And Hurting Our Troops Is Not Democratic, Nor What This Country Has Stood For Over 200 Years.

If We Have To Continue To Live Under Sequestration, It Will Have A Maximum Impact On Our Ability To Fulfill The President's Strategic Guidance. We Can't Do It All. It's As Simple As That, With The Limitations Of The Budget As Severe As They Are. These Deep, Abrupt Cuts Have Forced Us To Make Decisions That Are Not In The Interest Of America.

The United States Can't Impose Democracies. We Can't Impose Our Will. The Russians Found That Out In Afghanistan.