Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.

If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.

Its important for people to know that I will make many promises to get their votes.

We do want people to know if in fact we learn of an incident that's focused on a particular city.If we learn of long-term planning, that's focused on a particular industry or infrastructure. And so we feel we have an obligation to let people know if we have information of a credible threat or not.

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

I think you need to have people around you who can remind you that, actually, what you just said makes no sense. Fortunately, I have my wife to do that continually.

No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.