John McCain

I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time.

The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I've been in in a long time.

Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.

I'm not against a border wall, OK, but go to China, and you'll see a border wall there. We need technology, we need drones, we need surveillance capabilities, and we need rapid-reaction capabilities.

I understand the sensitivity of issues regarding women in the military.

To argue against the global economy is like stating opposition to the weather - it continues whether you like it or not.

We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the will to work together to adjust them.

I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever.