America has everything most countries envy. A Constitution which is the treasure of mankind, a strong military, natural resources of every kind. Above all, as Tocqueville said, a good people, which is what makes us great.

I just want to assure you that both President Bush and I have very firm alibis.

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

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

The future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.

There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire.