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.

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on achievement.

Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.

Let no one doubt, we will defend America's security and the cause of freedom around the world. But we want a president who tells us what America is fighting for, not just what we are fighting against. We want a president who will defend human rights - not just where it is convenient - but wherever freedom is at risk - from Chile to Afghanistan, from Poland to South Africa