The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.

God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

We have to be on offense against terrorists, that we have to make it bipartisan, that it isn't about being a Democrat or a Republican. It's about being an American.

I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-September 11th period. I think we have to know who's coming into this country. We have to be able to identify them; we have to be able to figure out who they are.

Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.