We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge. We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors.

Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and its a very important part of helping change the Middle East into a part of the world that will not serve as a threat to the civilized world, to people like - or to the developed world, to people like - in the United States.

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.

Information is moving - you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized.

Faith is the framework for living. It gives us the spirit and heart that affects everything we do. If gives us hope each day. Faith gives us purpose to right wrongs, to preserve our families, and to teach our children values. Faith gives us conscience to keep us honest, even when nobody is looking. And, faith can change lives; I know first hand, because faith changed mine.