To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.

Well, let's see. There's—of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others. But, um.

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

[Opponents had dubbed her] Mean Jean ... their commander in chief.

He's going to run on the idea that he's the commander-in-chief, that it's about his patriotism, that he kept us safe after 9/11, ... The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy.