About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

On 9-11, we discovered that we cannot escape from the world. To me personally, this was a life-changing experience, and I realized, as did all Americans, in a way that is impossible to describe, that we were not protected by the two oceans. It was necessary to eliminate threats before they showed up on our doorstep. I agree that we should not be getting caught up in far away wars. But I believe Iraq was central to our war on terrorism.

How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?

Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.

This young century will be liberty's century.

I do know that it’s important for us to support the Iraqi people, who have shown incredible courage in their desire to live in a free society. And if we ever give up the desire to help people who live in freedom, we will have lost our soul as a nation, as far as I’m concerned.