You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.

This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. Its about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I wont give up this fight.

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.

We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night. So it is time to end the era of John Ashcroft. That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties at the same time.

American can do better, and help is on the way.

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