Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side.

I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

I know what motivated you was not just a political campaign. It was your love of our country.

I must say, I don't think a political campaign is the occasion to declare exactly what we would do in that case. I think that's a matter of such critical national security importance that it ought to be left to those -- the commander in chief, the leaders of the military, the secretary of state -- to make that kind of decision without the heat of a political campaign.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.