What we Americans need to do is respect that incredible blessing that we have as a nation and make sure that we are leading in the best ways possible.

I supported Israel 100 percent as a senator for 28 years and I've supported it 100 percent as Secretary of State.

Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President.

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

It is the duty of any president, in the final analysis, to defend this nation and dispel the security threat. Saddam Hussein has brought military action upon himself by refusing for 12 years to comply with the mandates of the United Nations. The brave and capable men and women of our armed forces and those who are with us will quickly, I know, remove him once and for all as a threat to his neighbors, to the world, and to his own people, and I support their doing so.