I was taught that we should look after the beam in our own eye before searching for the mote in someone else's.

The more you defend in the face of a critical audience, the more you polarize.

I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

We'll succeed unless we quit.

I am a passionate person when it comes to freedom.

Some say that by fighting the terrorists abroad since September the 11th, we only stir up a hornets' nest. But the terrorists who struck that day were stirred up already. If America were not fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere, what would these thousands of killers do - suddenly begin leading productive lives of service and charity? ... We are dealing here with killers who have made the death of Americans the calling of their lives.