What it means is that the president decided to engage our brains rather than open the taxpayers' wallets immediately, and what he wants to do is to conduct a quick, prompt review, ... FOX News Sunday.

The bottom line is the treaty is designed to not have ballistic missile defenses, and the president has decided he wants to have ballistic missile defenses, and we are proceeding on an R and D [research and development] effort to get us to point where we can have ballistic missile defenses.

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

Don't begin to think you're the President. You're not. The Constitution provides for only one.

He certainly is the secretary-general and he has a voice and a role. On the other hand, until President Bush went to the U.N., the U.N. was quite happy with the way things were,

But I certainly never gave the president a briefing with the impact that one would have had you seen the photographs or the video. I mean, let there be no doubt about that. He was just as blindsided as the Congress and me and everyone else.