I Think The Key That Happened On

The Threat Is There. It's Very Real And It's Continuing. And What The Obama People Are Doing, In Effect, Is Saying, Well, We Don't Need Those Tough Policies That We Had. That Says Either They Didn't Work, Which We Know Is Not The Case - They Did Work, They Kept Us Safe For Seven Years - Or That Now Somehow The Threat's Gone Away. There's No Longer A Threat Out There, We Don't Have To Be As Tough And Aggressive As The Bush Administration Was.

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.

Oil Remains Fundamentally A Government Business. While Many Regions Of The World Offer Great Oil Opportunities, The Middle East With Two-thirds Of The World's Oil And The Lowest Cost, Is Still Where The Prize Ultimately Lies, Even Though Companies Are Anxious For Greater Access There, Progress Continues To Be Slow.

I Have Not Seen Al Gore's Movie.

My Belief Is We Will, In Fact, Be Greeted As Liberators. . . . I Think It Will Go Relatively Quickly, . . . [in] Weeks Rather Than Months.