America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

I lived through crises. September 11 is obviously the biggest one that I've lived through.

In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.

My major focus is national security because that's really what the president runs.

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.

Donald Trump believes now that Barack Obama was born in the United States. But that issue was raised originally by Hillary Clinton's campaign.

You know, in the horror movie you kill the monster, and the hand re-emerges. And if you're not looking, the hand grows back and then the monster's there again. That cannot be allowed to happen.