Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

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.

Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

I think the American people are sophisticated enough and wise enough to make judgments about the candidates and wade through the charges and countercharges that come with the [election 2004] campaign.

It is not possible to rule out anything because we don't know what will happen.