The sooner that they can start building that national campaign against the Democrats the better.

Obviously an election that would not pass the smell test.

If the phone rang at 3:00 a.m. in the White House and I was the one to answer it, I would be the one most qualified to exercise the kind of judgment necessary to address a national security crisis.

It is obviously an election that would not pass the smell test.

We're guardedly confident that we can get a sufficient number of delegates with victories in Vermont, Rhode Island, Ohio and Texas.

It would be someone who is prepared to take my place, who follows my philosophies, beliefs, principles and priorities.

As you may have noticed, I'm not the youngest candidate in the race.

Americans want a respectful campaign and they'll get it from me.

I have some news. Al Qaeda is in Iraq. Al Qaeda. It's called Al Qaeda in Iraq. And, my friends, if we left, they wouldn't be establishing a base. They'd be taking a country. And I'm not going to allow that to happen, my friends. I will not…

John McCain's battle of the airwaves. Can taking on Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the talk radio group win him votes in November?

The reason why I had to repudiate that was because it was a campaign event.

Americans want a respectful campaign. And they will get it from me.

I have some news. Al Qaeda is in Iraq. Al Qaeda -- it's called al Qaeda in Iraq. And, my friends, they wouldn't -- if we left, they wouldn't be establishing a base. They wouldn't be establishing a base. They would be taking a country, and…

I want you with me, but don't expect me to be with you.

I will always do what I believe is right, no matter what the political consequences are.

And they were wrong, Senator Clinton and Senator Obama, when they said that the surge would fail.

Last January, when the president announced the -- the so-called surge, he laid out 15 political benchmarks the Iraqi government needed to meet. Yesterday, John McCain said that almost of them -- with almost of them, we're either making…

Senator McCain mentioned 100 years American troops will be here. No one can speak to that.