Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.

I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.

Now we've got the cables. We've got talk radio. We've got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers.

There is no confidence in the Arab world today in the United States of America.

I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't

What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?

[Several candidates talked of problems with the federal Medicare system, particularly concerns about whether it would cover prescription drug costs in the future.] We're asking senior citizens to make a choice between their health and their income, ... Medicare is probably the most difficult challenge we face in the next century, because it has a lot to do with other things besides money.