 But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago. |
| Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. |
| On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell. |
| Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice. |
| The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them. |
| And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat? |
| War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. |
| The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on. |
| I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also. |
| Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. |
| Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will. |
| We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves. |
| I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together. |
| As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate. |
| I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training. |
| The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America. |
| We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home. |
| Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. |
| Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'. |
| I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours. |
