Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion.

I would like people to understand the rationale for my embryonic stem cell research decision and how the process became distorted over time.

What matters is that in this Iraq campaign that we clarify the different points of view. And there are a lot of people in the Democratic Party who believe that the best course of action is to leave Iraq before the job is done. Period. And they're wrong. And the American people have got to understand the consequence of leaving Iraq before the job is done. We're not going to leave Iraq before the job is done and we'll complete the mission in Iraq.

War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.

There are some monuments where the land is so widespread, they just encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of the - the precious part, so to speak - I guess all land is precious, but the part that the people uniformly would not want to spoil, will not be despoiled. But there are parts of the monument lands where we can explore without affecting the overall environment.

When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood.

There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.