It's a very good start. For the Congress, which hasn't done this before, we think it's a bold, cooperative move.

It requires the Defense Department and the State Department to be joined at the hip in terms of how to build these program and the countries they choose.

For the United States to get (them) the training and equipment they needed, we had to stitch together at least seven different ... authorities.

In the war on terrorism, our enemies operate globally.

Subsidies were instituted that are now being used to pay telephone bills. That strikes me as something that Congress certainly did not have in mind when it passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

[Bush and members of Congress on Tuesday promised at least three investigations into the sluggish response to the storm. The president said he would lead an inquiry into] what went right and what went wrong. ... I don't think the government should be investigating itself.