The message is for everybody who wears the uniform: get ready. The United States will do what it takes to win this war... And this is an administration that is going to dedicate ourselves to winning that war.

I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.

I've got a great sense of where I want to lead and I'm comfortable with why I'm running. And, you know, the call on that speech was, beware. This is going to be a tough campaign.

For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.

It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along. And even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel.