I will not leave the Republican Party, ... The Republican Party is my home.

And we are in a strange conundrum. You can kill an American citizen overseas. But according to this administration, if you capture him in the United States, they've got to be read their Miranda rights.

I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.

In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia.

The benefit of an open town hall meeting is one that you get to hear a lot of different views, and two it has credibility.

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.

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.