Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.

There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan that might work and make it work.

Already the scent of victory is in the air.

The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy. It won't work. We have to be the party that can stand toe to toe with George W. Bush on national security, as well as the party of compassion.

I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.

President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.

Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.