I think it was becoming more and more evident that it was becoming increasingly offensive to a large number of our population -- black and white,

No one should dare to even think about being the commander in chief of this country if he doesn't believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home,

Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.

The conditions are becoming increasingly adverse. It is grave, and being realistic, we think the situation is difficult.

[Sen. Zell Miller, D-Georgia, wrote Bush to offer congratulations.] I would like to offer my sincere congratulations and pledge my support to work across party lines with you to bring this country together and move it forward, ... You will be my president, and I wish you the very best.

It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.