If you read with empathy what Lincoln went through, then you realize what you're going through is nothing compared to what he went through.

American nation will not wait to be attacked again. We will defend our freedom and we will take the fight to the enemy.

Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example. And were not a party of anti-immigrants. Quite the opposite. Were a party that welcomes people.

But oftentimes I'm asked, why? Why do you care what happens outside of America?

I think you can grow your economy and at the same time do a better job of harnessing greenhouse gases. I don't think you can expect any American leader to wreck the economy, nor as an ally and a friend of America and a trading partner of America should you want us to wreck our economy.

I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.

I do know that it’s important for us to support the Iraqi people, who have shown incredible courage in their desire to live in a free society. And if we ever give up the desire to help people who live in freedom, we will have lost our soul as a nation, as far as I’m concerned.