Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled.

We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must uphold them.... I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators. Citizens, not subjects. Responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character.

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.

Iran is obviously part of the problem. They sponsor Hezbollah. They encourage a radical brand of Islam.

We had a shared experience. That makes a good marriage better. In many ways our marriage is great because she has made it great.

We've been able to watch on our television screens sophisticated weaponry find a building; and we've seen dramatic reports from the front where Pulitzer Prize-to-be winning reporters stood up and declared, the United States is attacked, and all that.