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" To argue against the global economy is like stating opposition to the weather - it continues whether you like it or not. "

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" I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from. "

" I've tried to say that I admire and respect Sen. Obama. He has accomplished great things, and he has motivated people, and so - and he loves his country, just as I do. "

" I believe we should always put our country first. "

" We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the will to work together to adjust them. "

" I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training. "

" Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. "

" The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.' "

" My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. "

" Countries, not just their armies, win wars. "

" Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. "

" Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again. "

" We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home. "

" Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values. "

" And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat? "

" America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress. "

" For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are zero-sum. "

" Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed. "

" I consider myself a Christian. I attend church. My faith has sustained me in very difficult times. "

" I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero. "

" I think it's important for the president of the United States to be aware of the intelligence information that we have. "

" Personally, I liked Admiral Kelso very much. I believe that he served his country with distinction. "

" Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times. "

" On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done. "

" I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. "

" On Putin's order, Russia intervenes in Syria not to fight terrorists but to abet the war crimes of the Assad regime. Russian bombers deliberately target aid workers and hospitals. They threaten Syrian freedom fighters trained by the U.S. They are allied with our enemies in the Middle East and trying to weaken our friendships there. "

" I believe that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. I believe it's clear that he had every intention to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. I can only imagine what Saddam Hussein would be doing with the wealth he would acquire with oil at $110 and $120 a barrel. "

" The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I've been in in a long time. "

" On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources. "

" If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started. "

" A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest. "