We need a new approach to national security - a bold, progressive internationalism that stands in stark contrast to the too often belligerent and myopic unilateralism of the Bush Administration.

I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.

America is the most powerful economy in the world. We're an $18-trillion-dollar economy.

I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.