We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.

We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.

President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of his team. He told me at the outset, he wanted me to sign on to be a part of his team - and he was true to his word, kept it. He was tough. He was decisive. He was also a pretty good politician.

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security, he was very often in the minority.

You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

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

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.