politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

Women love to hear a man defending their wife.

You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

National campaigns are tough. Yes, you have to be prepared to be attacked, and I have to tell you, if you get elected, you have to also be prepared.

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.