The disastrous consequences described by President Bush are already in motion and are a direct result of a war that should never have been authorized.

I will act with proper regard for the costs and consequences of action, based on the advice of military commanders and with a clear statement of purpose and policy to the American people.

I see an America that is the strongest nation in the history of the world - not just because of our arms, but because of the strength of our values.

That trust is simple: America will be there for you just as you have been there for America.

The only thing they seem to have agreed on is to take a vacation.

It's time to turn the page on a politics that has turned its back on rural America.

My call for a new foreign policy is based on the same thing that informed my opposition to the war in Iraq: common sense not conventional Washington thinking.

We need to restore our standing in the world to combat common enemies.

Think of what we can achieve together if we change the conventional thinking that's squandering America's reputation in the world.

I'm running on my judgment and I'll tell the American people where I stand.

I know it's easy to be cynical about politics in this country.

We have to take the blinders off the White House.