Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.

That's Joe Biden right there - unbowed, unbroken and unable to stop talking.

I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need.

If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.

I asked that I not be considered for vice president of the United States.

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

Americans want to win; bin Laden thinks he's winning now.