Over 1,000 Americans have lost their lives. Americans are being beheaded. Iraq is a mess. And they think this is a joke.

Let me just say this in the simplest possible terms.

When John Kerry is President of the United States, we will find Al Qaeda where they are and crush them before they can do damage to the American people.

Every single one of those presidents created jobs until this president. Because they can't defend this record. It's impossible. You can't defend what they've done.

It's hard to see how he moves a lot of votes in rural areas.

I think Cheney's scare tactics today crossed the line. This is un-American.

I think that's where Senator Kerry needs to be. I think that's where Senator Kerry is.

Things are not going well in America. This is a jobless recovery. Health care costs exploding. Things are not going well in Iraq.

The lack of respect that we have around the world is costing American diplomacy. It's costing America in prestige.

Their answer to everything is to try to dig themselves out of this quagmire they got in Iraq and not pay attention to things that are happening right here in the United States of America.

We've got to change that and change it right away. We need to have an administration that understands that.

The Kerry campaign didn't have a very good August but the country under President Bush has had a terrible August.

This administration's attention has been completely diverted to Iraq.

I think they had a bad August. I think that they know that and they're making changes at the campaign.

Hope is on the way. Hope is on the way. Hope is on the way.

The Bush administration miscalculated by deciding to go it alone without strong allies. The Bush administration miscalculated when they waited three years after September 11 to start to reform our intelligence.

The president himself said on television today that he had serious doubts about winning the war on terrorism. John Kerry and I know we can win the war on terrorism, and we know how to win it.

I think it would be wrong for the Kerry people not to say that there has been an ever so slight, but noticeable, erosion here.