When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.

One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.

Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.

People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.

Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.