Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own emotions. So I turned away from the red eyes of the crowd and looked only at the red eye of the camera, talking to all the nation.

Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past.

Being trustworthy is something you are, something you stand for and a core value you live by. It isn't something you can train for nor is it something you can manipulate. You either have those values or you don't.

Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.