Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born.

We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.

There is a language barrier between vets and the civilian population. They speak different languages.

Some who call themselves realists question whether the spread of democracy in the Middle East should be any concern of ours. But the realists in this case have lost contact with a fundamental reality: America has always been less secure when freedom is in retreat; America is always more secure when freedom is on the march.

I want to remind you right quick what this country has been through, and the challenges this economy had faced over the last three years. First, we went through a recession. That means we were going backwards.

Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.