There's been more than one time when I've said something, and sort of the middle of what I've said is not said but thought, and therefore assumed to be understood, which is a ridiculous assumption on my part, but sometimes gets me in trouble.

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy.

We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.

The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite. We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion dollars bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hezbollah.

We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.

I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.