Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.