So the fact that there is a link somewhere between terror and tyranny is not sufficient for us to be making decisions about spending $200 billion to $300 billion or sacrificing the lives of American servicemen and women.

I think that may be true, in fact, for just the National Guard, alone.

I never got quite a clear answer to Senator Biden's question as to how many troops, Iraqi troops...

Is the resistance on those reforms coming simply from countries that are in the midst of development, or are we also seeing resistance from allies, like France and Germany and others?

I think the notion that we have a very real and present danger in the nihilistic ideologies of radical Islam, I think most Americans share.

it appears to be an entirely open-ended commitment.

it's unlikely that I'd be sitting here asking you questions

I know that it has a wonderful reputation for bipartisanship

What's the status of our troops, and what's our exit strategy?

And we are now going to be spending at least $200 billion in Iraq, and we have lost over 1,300 lives and it is counting.

if our measure is to bring our troops home, and success is measured by whether Iraqis can secure their own circumstances, and if our best troops in the world are having trouble controlling the situation with 150,000 or so, it sounds like…

Absolutely, but again--I know I am out of time here, but that is true in Sudan.

But my job, as a Senator, is to make sure that we're basing these decisions on facts and that I probe and not simply take it on faith that good decisions are being made.

I did not anticipate speaking today, but the importance of this issue is enough for me to address this body. During the election, I had the occasion of meeting a woman who had supported me in my campaign. She decided to come to shake my…

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America, there is the United States of America.

This is a guy who has better prepared for the presidency than anybody I've ever seen. Enormously engaging, enormously caring, and enormously intelligent.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America - there’s the United States of America.

The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him too.

If there’s a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child.

America, we have more work to do.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

In no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.