We have a duty to our country to participate in the political process. See, if you believe in freedom, you have a duty to exercise your right to vote to begin with. I'm [here] to encourage people to do their duty, to go to the polls. I want all people, no matter what their political party is or whether they even like a political party, to exercise their obligation to vote.

If you don't feel something strongly you're not going to achieve.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

One thing you had to learn [after the presidency] was that you no longer had the sense of responsibility that became ingrained in your system.

If you're a poor worker - this is for new workers coming into the workplace - your benefits will increase at the current rate of increase. If you're a wealthier worker, your benefits would increase at the rate of inflation. And those changes would affect positively the unfunded liabilities inherent in Social Security.

Iraq will succeed because the Iraqis will see to it that they succeed. And our job is to help them succeed. That's our job.

We're going to get [bin Laden]. Dead or alive, it doesn't matter to me.