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.

I understand I'm running against a person who is so anxious to become president, he will do whatever it takes.

The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

There is a language barrier between vets and the civilian population. They speak different languages.

I don't understand how poor people think.

We'll continue to speak out in a respectful way; never challenging somebody's love for America when you criticize their strategies or their point of view.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.