I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

Foreign fighters are travelling into Iraq to make it a front line in the war on terror. And I would rather defeat them there than face them in our own country.

These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion.