"I was a prisoner too, but for bad reasons."

"I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging."

"It's negative to think about blowing each other up. That's not a positive thought. That's a Cold War thought. That's a thought when people were enemies with each other.

"Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it."

"I haven't ahd a chance to talk but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't."

"The federal government and the state government must not fear programs who change lives, but must welcome those faith-based programs for the embetterment of mankind."

"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in WAshington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeded with succes as opposed to failure."

"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."

"The Bob Jones policy on interracial dating, I mean I spoke out on interracial dating. I spoke against that. I spoke out against interracial dating. I support the policy of interracial dating."

"The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?"

"We've got hundreds of sites to exploit, looking for the chemical and biological weapons that we know Saddam Hussein had prior to our entrance into Iraq."

"I love the idea of a school in which people come to get educated and stay in teh state in which they're educated. "

"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling. "

"One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor-the president-the governor-president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq-and at the same-right after I gave him the Purple heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States-a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen. "

"It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washinton term. "

"I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale in the military. "

"John Thune has got a commonsense vision for good forest policy. I look forward to working with him in the United Nations Senate to preserve those national heritages. "

"I think the American people-I hope the American-I don't think, let me-I hope the American people trust me. "

"[T]hat's just the nature of democracy. Sometimes pure politics enters into the rhetoric. "

"I was poroud the other day when both republicans and democrats stood with me in the Rose garden to announce their support for a clear statement of purpose: you disarm, or we will."

"[A]s you know, these are open forums, you're able to come and listen to what I have to say."

"I want each and every American to know for certain that I'm responsible for the decisions I make and each of ou are as well."

"I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know. "

"Whether you're here by birth, or whether you're in America by choice, you contruibute to the vitality of our life. And for that, we are grateful. "