On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

If you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that, too.

The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth, and prosperity in Europe.

If we have a phased redeployment where we're as careful getting out as we were careless getting in, then there's not reason why we shouldn't be able to prevent the wholesale slaughter I think some people have suggested might occur.

We are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.

Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.