I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.

Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.