I think it's an urgent plea for us all to sit down together.

We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived.

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

The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

I respect Sarah Palin. I appreciate her and her husband enormously. I think she will continue to play a major role in the future of the Republican Party.

[Several candidates talked of problems with the federal Medicare system, particularly concerns about whether it would cover prescription drug costs in the future.] We're asking senior citizens to make a choice between their health and their income, ... Medicare is probably the most difficult challenge we face in the next century, because it has a lot to do with other things besides money.