The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.

You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born.

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

Bill Clinton and I are friends; we see each other on the speaking circuit. He likes to be visible. I don't. And I draw no judgment either way.

Our priorities is our faith.