You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.

I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

I believe we're making really good progress in Iraq.

From the beginning, I said that Israel, one, has a right to defend herself, but Israel ought to be cautious about how she defends herself. Israel's a democratically elected government. They make decisions on their own sovereignty. It's their decision-making that is what leads to the tactics they chose.

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.