People of every ethnic group and religious persuasion have got to be given the right to live here,

More than half the American people now believe that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake, ... They're right. But it would also be a mistake to pull out now, or to start pulling out or to set a date certain for pulling out. Instead we need a strategy to create a stable, democratizing and peaceful state in Iraq -- a strategy the administration has failed to develop and articulate.

did the right thing, but they did it the wrong way.

Right now, the sad fact is that too many Americans are working harder and harder and earning less and less. Under George W. Bush , the typical working family has seen its income fall by nearly $1,500 annually, ... As incomes have fallen, expenses have gone up -- way up.

What we have right now in the president of the United States is a governor who had no foreign policy experience and didn't know very much about things beyond America's borders,

I think what you have to understand about the armed forces, ... it's a competitive bureaucracy. People enter it at the bottom and they come out at the top. There's a lot of gossip. There are some sharp elbows in there,