Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will face a military force - a United States military force that cannot sustain - continually sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20-odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.