Ladies and gentlemen, all I can say is President Bush and I have airtight alibis.

I pledge to you, Missouri, I can fight a more effective, smarter, and better war on terror.

Kerry takes on Bush over his 9/11 reaction. Why he did just sit there? Tough talk in what is becoming an even tougher campaign.

I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the president of the United States had something that he needed to attend to. And I would have attended to it.

And I will do the diplomacy necessary, and I have heavy cards to play. I'm not going to lay them all out on the table.

We have a better plan. We're going to get everybody covered.

It occurred to me that he could come here for a great discussion about America's future, if he were really willing to just turn the corner.

We'll run the federal government with the kind of discipline that you run your businesses.

I'm going to have a press conference at least once a month to talk to the nation about what I'm doing, because I don't have anything to hide.

I am determined that as president, I'm not going to responsible for piling debt on our children's heads...

My priority, first and foremost, is putting America back to work.

The 9/11 commission has given us a path to follow, endorsed by Democrats, Republicans, and the 9/11 families. As president, I will not evade or equivocate, I will immediately implement all the recommendations of that commission...

I believe this administration and its policies is actually encouraging the recruitment of terrorists. We haven't done the work necessary to reach out to other countries.

The latest poll from the 'Washington Post'-ABC News shows Kerry leading President Bush by 6 points among registered voters.

If the president had a sense of urgency about this director of intelligence and about the needs to strengthen America, he would call the Congress back and get the job done now.

some of Bush's policies encourage the recruitment of terrorists.

The intelligence agencies of our country will tell you and can tell you, it's not classified, that the madrasas, the schools that are teaching terror, the people who are training terror, are using our actions as a means of recruitment.

The timing here is so extraordinary. The reaction of the president is so uncharacteristic to anything he has done in his six years of a presidency, that it raises legitimate questions.