I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.