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

We don't need a president who just says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." We need a president who says, America, let's start our economy and put people back to work.

These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.

The world has to save Syria. I mean, this has dramatic implications for the entire region, globally.

We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.

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

You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.