At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. It's easy to point at me. I'm convenient.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

the most soulless place I had ever been . . It was demeaning. It was degrading. It was very lonely.