As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.

We need to work through this with the Republican conference first, ... A lot of us have approached leadership and asked them to find a way to have this hearing without jeopardizing Senator Helms' prerogatives and feelings.

If you're running against a Republican in a vulnerable district, you've got Iraq, you've got Harriet Miers, you've got Katrina, you got Tom DeLay being indicted. You've got a lot of ammunition.

That's a bunch of Republican hacks up there acting on their own.

Everyone is incredibly impressed, and they go away and say they'll tell their friends.

My Republican friends are laughing at us because of the indecision we're going through, ... Inside Politics.