But I think the important thing is not experienced per se, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney had the best resumes from Washington and initiated a fiasco in Iraq, but rather, does someone have the judgment necessary to learn from experience…

We should be under no illusions. There is chaos in Iraq at the moment.

At the moment, I am not auditioning for the job. What I am going -- undergoing is a process to look at how I can be best, most useful to the American people.

That is the true genius of America. A faith -- a faith in simple dreams. An insistence on small miracles. That we can tuck in our children at night and know that they're fed and clothed and safe from harm.

Nothing would happen -- that happened tonight would discourage me from -- from making that race.

American soldiers are losing their lives. I don't think we can wait. I don't think we can ask them to wait.

Don't send us political extremists. There was a time when the president was successful doing that, but I think that time has passed.

I think we make a mistake when we fail to acknowledge the power of faith in people's lives.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert's lawyer went before the House Ethics Committee to explain how his office dealt with complaints about Foley's e-mails to pages.

I, first of all, learned of this last Friday, when we were about to leave Congress for you know, the break to -- to go out and campaign.

They'll be under oath, and we'll find out. If they did cover something up, then they should not continue their -- to have their jobs.

I'm deeply sorry that this has happened. And the bottom line is that we're taking responsibility, because, ultimately, as someone has said in Washington before, the buck stops here.

When you talk about the page issue and what's happened in the Congress, I'm deeply sorry that this has happened. And the bottom line is that we're taking responsibility because ultimately, as someone has said in Washington before, the buck…

I'm going to run and presumably win in this election. And when we do, I expect to run for speaker.

You know, I'm going to run, and presumably win, in this election.

If you let this thing spin out of control, Democrats are going to take back control of Congress and they're going to raise your taxes and grow the government.

Don't think about me. Don't turn your fire against me. Focus on the Democrats because remember, they're trying to take us down here.

There were others that had this information. Didn't come forward with it. I've asked for investigations both on the whole process. I've asked for Foley to be investigated, I've asked for investigations on who had this information because…