I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

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.

I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.

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

There is a much cheaper way, less complicated way to bring Iraq and Saddam Hussein to its knees: it is simply to send the Bush economic team over there and let them run the country.

There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.

Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.