My fellow Americans, all of us in this grand hall and everybody watching at home, when we vote in this election, we'll be deciding what kind of country we want to live in. If you want a winner-take-all, you're-on-your-own society, you should support the Republican ticket. But if you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibility, a we're-all-in-this-together society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.

If you go against someone, you say, you can't vote for these Democrats, they don't have good values, they're not good people, they're weak, they're spineless, they're don't love America, they're giving aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein, that's the kind of thing I think is bad for America, because it stops the voters from thinking. And any time you stop thinking in a free society you get in trouble.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives

More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.

When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.