He came from the mines to the navy in World War II, you know these people came up in a time when you had to fight for every inch you got.

When she came in here, her situation was bad, ... But there's usually more than one thing that brings people to the point of being here.

What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

None of that was shared with the American people. And so we went to war, not only on the basis of weapons of mass destruction that we may or may not find, but [we] went to war without the knowledge of what the full consequences would be.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.