alone in a dark room when the casualty lists come in. I'm not afraid of that burden. I know both the blessing and price of freedom.

You're not afraid of the dark, are you?

When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.

We are not afraid of being isolated or standing alone,

Whoever that is in the middle of there, I'm not going to vote for him.

I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States? ... The vice president has two duties: One is to break a tie in case of a tie vote in the United States Senate .. the other is to inquire daily as to the health of the president. Neither one of those are very challenging as compared with living a good part of time in the state of Arizona.