We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

I think my major challenge, very frankly, is to maintain the traction, ... I've seen many campaigns here in the state of New Hampshire look good for a while, and then the air comes out of the balloon.

I spent most of my time wrestling looking up at the lights.

A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

I looked into Mr. Putin's eyes, and I saw three letters, a "K," a "G," and a "B."