I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys.

I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.

The threat is there. It's very real and it's continuing. And what the Obama people are doing, in effect, is saying, well, we don't need those tough policies that we had. That says either they didn't work, which we know is not the case - they did work, they kept us safe for seven years - or that now somehow the threat's gone away. There's no longer a threat out there, we don't have to be as tough and aggressive as the Bush administration was.

As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11.

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.