In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot.
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.
When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle.
I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history. We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement - that's the kindest word I can give you - of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war.
I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.
I owe America more than she has ever owed me.
Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States.
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.
Now we've got the cables. We've got talk radio. We've got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers.
I'm just trying to keep things normal around the house, because there's no reason why things shouldn't be normal.
We still have a long way to go before we can declare America safe, and that means doing a better job along our borders, as well.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
You can disagree with someone on issues, but you should never get personal. Joe Biden has never gotten personal, to my knowledge, with a fellow senator.
We were pleased to hear the President state his firm commitment that he will do whatever is necessary to accomplish this important goal.
We got results that would not have been possible without a negotiating partner like Joe Biden.
That's Joe Biden right there - unbowed, unbroken and unable to stop talking.
Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will again, like everyone else, .. But our mistakes are not the measure of our love for you. You are that measure, and how well you are prepared to make better choices than we have made.
But I'm still a work in progress. My mother calls me quite frequently with various critiques of my performance on TV and other public events. She's usually pretty severe with her comments.
I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism. I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time.
When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough.
I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need.
The fact that we did not give the demonstrators in Iran our moral support when a young woman named Neda bled to death in the streets of Iran will go down as one of the great mistakes of the 21st Century.
Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.
Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends.
It's the only way that I see that it can be done," McCain said. "Obviously, it has failed in the past, but I also notice there is a somewhat changed attitude on the part of the American people about this issue.
