What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.