We want to approach this in a multilateral way, talking with our friends, consulting with our security council colleagues in the United Nations, hoping to find a way to solve this peacefully, but at the same time recognising that unless the threat of military force is there, Iraq will not disarm.

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.

Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.

As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.