Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.