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

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.

The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president.

I cannot in good conscience vote in favor of tax cuts, irrespective of their size, or to which segment of the population they are targeted. Nor can I support any spending increases that are not related to improving our nation's defense from the obvious and serious threats facing us today.

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.

I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.