I simply said that I would do everything to help Taiwan to defend itself.

We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

I could have easily not run for president, and people would have come up and said, "Oh, man, you would have been a great president." Or even a lousy president. But I never would have known had I not chosen to run. Part of life is seizing the moment.

Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.

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.

I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace.