Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for pre-emptive action.

There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like.

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

I do not like abortions. I will do everything in my power to restrict abortion.

I thought Colin Powell did a fine job as secretary of state.

We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September and proposed fundamental - supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel...