Women love to hear a man defending their wife.

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.

The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.

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.

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

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.