I have said from the beginning that Pat Buchanan left the Republican Party the day he questioned America's involvement in defeating Nazi Germany.

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.

Thanks to General Petraeus, our leadership and the sacrifice of brave young Americans. To deny that their sacrifice didn't make possible the success of the surge in Iraq, I think does a great disservice...the progress has been immense.

There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.

The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.