It is the height of absurdity for Dick Cheney, a chief architect of the Iraq quagmire, to talk about the leadership needed to fix the mess in Iraq that he created.

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.

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

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.

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.

He blasted President Bush's tax cuts and promised that he and Kerry would create new jobs if elected.

There is no red state, there is no blue state. There is only one United States of America.

And this is not a Democratic message or a Republican message, this is an American message.

We're going to reject this tired old hateful negative politics of the past.

You know, with the love of my life for 26 years married, and even before that, the love of my life, Elizabeth.

... about values. Well, I know something about values, just like all of you do. I grew up in a small town in North Carolina. I know what values are, I grew up with them -- work, faith, responsibility, family...

Tony Blair didn't run from the report. He didn't try to not acknowledge it. Instead, what Tony Blair said was, I take full responsibility for the mistakes.

On the question, Who would make a better president, newly crowned VP candidate John Edwards with 47 percent, Dick Cheney, 38 percent.