I believe strongly that we should have nominees to the United States Supreme Court based on their qualifications rather than any litmus test.

There's one big difference between me and the others - I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I'll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation.

I am a computer illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.

If we leave Iraq, terrorists will follow us home.

In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big government, with plenty of special interest plums: Big unions get big spending and big business gets corporate welfare and special tax breaks - all at the expense of average Americans.

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

I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.