While Secretary Rumsfeld and I have had our differences, he deserves Americans' respect and gratitude for his many years of public service.

Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats. I can't shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me ... I'm delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary.

We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.

I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'

We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.