I'm motivated by my passion for our basic values, protecting our interests, and for protecting the future.

I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.

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

Assassination, kidnappings and suicide attacks have become too much the standard operating procedure in the Islamic world. So much so that the name of Islam itself has been diminished in the eyes of many people. It is the responsibility of all of us, and particularly those in the Islamic world who care about their religion, to rescue it from its increased association with violence.

As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.

The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.

Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.