I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.

They [U.S. soldiers] are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.

To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

I think a lot of people are capitalizing, perhaps exploiting, what was done via me, my family, my administration.

John McCain and I, and our camps, are working together to get John McCain elected.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.