Border security is our top priority. But we’re not going to do border security alone. We want comprehensive immigration reform.

Today’s bombing appears to be an effort to dissuade other members of the international community from assisting in the reconstruction of Iraq, … We cannot allow terrorists to thwart efforts to internationalize the rebuilding process...

A larger outbreak of BSE or some other livestock disease could devastate rural economies,

He never actually came out and said just that. But in every speech he gave during the campaign and afterwards, he left the impression. He left the impression with 65 percent of the American people,...

If the governor were serious about ridding his administration of partisan patronage, he never would have pardoned them in the first place and would have cooperated with the Attorney Generals investigation,

[Dean said 3 million people had lost jobs during the Bush administration, according to AP.] It’s not only because the president can’t manage the economy, … But also because he’s shipped many of our jobs...

The Republican leadership in Washington is now spending more time answering questions about ethical misconduct than doing the people’s business.

Let me say that if John Kerry is the nominee I’m going to support him, … Second of all, if John Kerry were the nominee, I’d advise him not to pick me because you don’t...

The Republican Party is bankrupt of ideas and bankrupt of morality,

This isn’t done yet.

This is one failure we will not allow Rove and the GOP attack machine to spin away with their usual barrage of photo ops, misinformation, smear campaigns and press conferences,

I am concerned that every time something happens that’s not good for President Bush, he plays this trump card — which is terrorism. His whole campaign is based on the notion that ‘I can keep...

With 15 percent of the delegates selected so far, I question whether Democrats really want to choose somebody that they don’t know much about,

They all say, ‘He’s so liberal,’ … Well, if liberal is balancing budgets, please do call me a liberal. … If you want jobs and investment in the country, you’re going to have to have...

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

I supported the war in Afghanistan because 3000 of our people were murdered and I thought we had a right to defend the people of the United States.

One way or another, the state should afford same-sex couples equal treatment under law in areas such as health insurance, hospital visitation and inheritance rights,

When we set this event up, … I had absolutely no idea that we were going to have the elected president of the United States here with us today.

President Bush has failed to put together a plan, so despite the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, we are not making the progress that we should be in Iraq.

It looks like today, and this could change, as of today it looks like women will be worse off in Iraq than they were when Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq

Most Americans think the state of the union is in pretty difficult shape right now. The president’s going to have a lot of explaining to do.

People want us to fight, and we are here to fight, … We are not going to lie down in front of the Republican machine anymore.

[In a speech at Iowa’s Drake University, Kerry said Bush] has taken America off onto the road of unilateralism and ideological preemption, … down a road of confusion and retreat.

To use a Texas expression, President Bush is all hat and no cattle when it comes to education.

You work and you work and you work.

It’s a huge cover-up. That’s what they’re in trouble for,

The president is sleeping comfortably in Crawford, Texas, tonight, … but there are an awful lot of Americans who are kind of sleepless these days — they’re sleepless about wondering where their job went. They’re...

probably the most mismanaged nomination I’ve ever seen by the White House.

The House Republicans couldn’t afford to elect Roy Blunt, but they weren’t honest enough to elect a real reformer.

[ ‘ ON THE ATTACK: John Kerry] launched a broad attack … shifting views on gun control, Social Security, and Medicare policy, as well as campaign finance reform.

The evidence is very clear. Half the stuff the president told us about Iraq — the weapons of mass destruction, the trip to Niger, the purchase of uranium, and all that stuff — we know...

We have to say what we believe, … whether it’s popular or not.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

The president has a moral obligation to rein in the right-wing extremists in his party and stop this divisive rhetoric about immigrants.

There will soon be a Hispanic governor in the state of Texas. There are people sitting in this room who will run for governor.

When you first elected me, I said that we would take our country back vote by vote, block by block, and neighborhood by neighborhood. We are making progress toward our goal.

We are the great grass roots campaign of the modern era, built from mouse pads, shoe leather and hope, … And like the founders of our republic, we seek change.

We have reached a decision, and we are hopeful that there are other unions who share our members’ excitement for Dr. Dean’s candidacy,

We are deeply committed to the resurgence of New Orleans. And we’ve been looking for ways to help in tangible ways.

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they’re...

[The] fact check … failed to admit he balanced the budget by cutting key services. … Dean balanced the budget on the backs of the poor and sick, by cutting public campaign financing and using...

Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a...

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

Bill Bennett ‘ s hateful, inflammatory remarks regarding African-Americans are simply inexcusable,

I’ve always said the president had failed to make the case to go to war with Iraq,

[But those with an interest in perpetuating the idea that the chief cause of black misfortune is an American culture that ”doesn’t care about black people] decry racism whether it exists or not. ”The ugly...

It’s not enough to change presidents, … We have to change the way Washington works — stand up to the lobbyists and the special interests and make government work for people again.

I hate to totally gild the lily, but in fact our second-place finishes are stronger than any we’ve had since New Hampshire, … We’re starting to come back.

We are going to the White House with the people who brought us to the dance,

Sixty percent of us got $304. Has your property taxes gone up more than $304 because the president cut cops on the beat, refused to fund special education, refused to fund “”no child left behind?””