And we are now going to be spending at least $200 billion in Iraq, and we have lost over 1,300 lives and it is counting.

So the fact that there is a link somewhere between terror and tyranny is not sufficient for us to be making decisions about spending $200 billion to $300 billion or sacrificing the lives of American servicemen and women.

What's the status of our troops, and what's our exit strategy?

I think part of the reason you were hesitant to talk about the torture issue yesterday had to do with the fact that you don't want to define 'torture' too much, because you want a little bit of wiggle room.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America, there is the United States of America.

This is a guy who has better prepared for the presidency than anybody I've ever seen. Enormously engaging, enormously caring, and enormously intelligent.

In no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

Out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America - there’s the United States of America.

The audacity of hope!

America, we have more work to do.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States.

If there’s a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child.

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him too.

Wouldn't it be good for us, at this moment in time, to clearly and unequivocally state that we will follow the Geneva Convention?