We're a country of optimists. We're the can-do people.

Our soldiers are stretched too thin.

Then I stood up as a senator to Ronald Reagan and his illegal war in Central America and to Oliver North and his private aide network.

We know when we have these kinds of orders what happens. We get the stress test. We get the use of dogs. We get the forced nakedness that we've all seen.

There's a reason why we sign these treaties to protect my son in the military. That's why we have these treaties so when Americans are captured they are not tortured. That's the reason in case anybody forgets it. That's the reason.

Ronald Reagan's love of our country was absolutely infectious. He was confident in his leadership and confident in America and that confidence was felt by the world.

He did bring down the Soviet empire and he did it through strength of character and vision and history will judge him I think very highly for that.

There are still too many people who can't afford health care, can't afford to go to college. There are too many people struggling, while at the top end people get ahead.

I believe that over the course of these last few years, the leader of the free world, the United States of America, has lost respect and influence, alliances are broken, and people are questioning both our values and our ideals. I intend…

I think he's going to try to. But you're right. Kerry has really been hitting this point recently and it's become sort of the crux of his foreign policy argument against Bush.

You know, I saw that there are 240,000 jobs created last month. That's terrific.

But guess what? There's still 1.9 million net jobs lost over the course of this presidency.

I think that many more people are responsible for the mess that the Bush administration has gotten us into.

The record is there that there have been more failures on his watch as director of CIA, massive failures of intelligence, than anybody I know.

I clearly believe that some of us won't be here, but some will, when America will be brought to her knees without a terrorist firing a shot in America if we get a substantial oil disruption.

I think it indicates that the Saudi oil is vulnerable, that the Saudi kingdom is vulnerable.

Now, General, you can't fix the world and you can't fix Saudi Arabian anti-terrorist forces, but I guarantee you that Iraq won't work unless the police and military of the Iraqis are ready.

None of this is going to work if they are not properly trained and equipped.