When we make a pledge, we mean it. We keep our word, and what we begin, we will finish.

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

I'm not so sure the role of the United States is going around the world saying this is the way its gotta be.

Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too.

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

The cornerstone of our policy in that part of the world is to help democracies. Lebanon's a democracy. We want the Siniora government to succeed.

Pushing legislation that would undercut our troops just as we're beginning to make progress in Baghdad.