What remains unchanged is the principle, which is that we do not launch wars without overwelming reasons, and overwhelming alliances, and without overwhelming force.

Governor Dean has no policy on Iraq evidently, except 'no.' 'No' is not a policy.

That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.

America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.

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.

I will never cede the authority of our country or our security to any other nation. I'll never give a veto over American security to any other entity - not a nation, not a country, not an institution.

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.