We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.

People want the truth, even if they disagree.

Why am I running for president? Well, my wife, Cindy, says it is because I sustainedseveral severe blows to the head in prison camp.

There's two ways of working in Washington, ... One is to go along and get along. The other is to stand up for what you believe in.

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

Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop. Second, mistreatment of our prisoners endangers U.S. troops who might be captured by the enemy – if not in this war, then in the next. And third, prisoner abuses exact on us a terrible toll in the war of ideas, because inevitably these abuses become public.