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

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

Terrorism threat is serious, and not just to American interests. The assaults in Russia against two airliners, bringing them out of the sky, and against a subway station, and then that horrible scene at the school in Beslan. This kind of terrorist activity no one is immune from it. And so it suggests that we have to do even more together to make sure the civilized worlds join together in the war against terrorism.

Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed.

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.