I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

When President Bush sees America, he sees only a military superpower. I see a moral and idealistic beacon. Mr. Bush may talk about democracy all he wants, but it is not democracy to wilfully disdain and heap scorn on world opinion. We do not command moral leadership by starting pre-emptive wars.

If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.

George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I have fought for in the Senate, and the America that I hope to lead as president.

We have to recognize that there is a strong, fresh wind blowing, powered by these new information technologies. It will be increasingly difficult for dictators to impose their will through sheer brutality.

Democrats proposing success in Iraq by political solution.

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.