The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.

I can tell you that I think America is safer today than it was on 9/11. But that doesn't mean that we don't have a long way to go.

Improve human intelligence to get Osama bin Laden.

I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.

I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited -- it will be spirited -- because there are stark differences. I am a proud conservative, liberal Republica-- conservative Republican...Hello? Easy there.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.