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.

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

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.

A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.

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