I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots, when the broader reality is that we have a record of results and that we're getting things done for the American people.

The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.

Isn't it my right to talk and say what I want to?

Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.

As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.