There were times (during my early campaigns) when I thought, "You know what I could really use? A wife."

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

Hope is not a strategy.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America. Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this.

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

What can we do to nurture and support a people capable of living in freedom?