Let me start off by saying that in 2000 I said, 'Vote for me. I'm an agent of change.' In 2004, I said, 'I'm not interested in change - I want to continue as president.' Every candidate has got to say 'change.' That's what the American people expect.

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.

This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table

Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.

We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

I will always believe our nation's best days lie ahead.