I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself.

We have to deal with reality. The reality is, we have a number a very high number of illegal immigrants in this country. They're meeting an important economic need. And we are a nation of laws, and we're a nation of immigrants. And if we're going to address the real threats, then we need to have a temporary worker program to allow our Border Patrol agents to focus on the criminals and the thugs and the terrorists and the traffickers and smugglers that are trying to come into this country illegally.

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.