"Please allow me to skip the stories and the poetry and the temptation to deal in nice but vague rhetoric."

"Although some people in this country seemed to be doing well nowadays, others were unhappy, even worried, about themselves, their families, and their futures."

"Because the truth is, ladies and gentlemen, that this is how we were warned it would be. President Reagan told us from the very beginning that he believed in a kind of social Darwinism. Survival of the fittest."

"We Democrats believe in something else."

"To succeed we will have to surrender."

"To succeed we will have to surrender some small parts of our individual interests."

"We Democrats must unite so that the entire nation can unite, because surely the Republicans won't bring this country together."

"We speak for women who are indignant that this nation refuses to etch into its governmental commandments the simple rule 'thou shalt not sin against equality.'"

"That was an election won under false pretenses. It was won with smoke and mirrors and illusions."

"They said that they would make us and the whole world safer."

"Of course democrats are for a strong defense."

"Of course Democrats believe that there are times that we must stand and fight. And we have."

"We have in the last few years spent more than we can afford."

"How can anyone say that we are safer, stronger, or better?"

"Separate the salesman from the product."

"And, ladies and gentlemen, please think of this, the nation must think of this: What kind of Supreme Court will we have?"

"We believe in a government strong enough to use words like 'love' and 'compassion.'"

"While survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order."

"We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a proper government should be: the idea of family, mutuality, the sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all, feeling one another's pain, sharing one another's blessings, reasonably, hon...

"She will open with one magnificent stroke, a whole new frontier for the United States."

"But I came down here to ask you to share this task with me."

Dale Doback: "I've had the old bull now i want the young calf, she grabs me by the weiner ... " Robert Doback: "Shut the fuck up!"

Shut ... shut ... shut your mouth.

Sometimes I might just be in your house ... no reason at all.

"It was just so memorable and I will remember it for the rest of my life."

"Sally, be good for Miss Holloway."

"So what is this all about?"

"After Jason hit the wall, I stood there for a minute and then I started pumping my fist. And that's when it sort of sunk in a little bit. But I think over the next few weeks and few months and years I think it will really set in even more."

"It should be where his wife was from. He also I think was probably influenced by his affection for Barry Goldwater and that Barry no doubt had talked to him about if you're gonna start a career, start it here."

"See, that's something I'm still kind of skeptical about."

"There main revenue, there only revenue source, is oil. Ended up with a $80 billion surplus this year. $79 billion dollar surplus and they've got that money parked in New York banks drawing interests while you the American tax payer are paying for reconstruction in Iraq. Crazy!"

"Some of those troops, unfortunately, a couple of brigades we're going to have to send to Afghanistan."

"The only way that we are going to solve this problem is if we fundamentally change how we use energy."

"I think for right now, you know, I think this is a sacrifice that I am making. I think this is a time where the Olympics is right around the corner, and trials are right around the corner. And, it's something I can give up between now and then."

"I think he would enormously advance the number of people who would support him and he certainly has the intellect to do that."

"Stop the despair, I want to stop the discouragement and go forward."

"There are only 1500 corporations, largely, that are running the majority of 535 members of Congress, who put their shoes on everyday like we do."

"You are a strong man."

"My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution."

"A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution."

"If the impeachment provision in the Constitution of the United States will not reach the offenses charged here, then perhaps that 18th-century Constitution should be abandoned to a 20th-century paper shredder."

"I have had the rare opportunity to watch seven men."

"There is a proper season for everything. There is a time to sow and a time to reap. There's a time to compete and a time to cooperate."

"There is a time to sow, and a time to reap."

"I am not a perfect servant."

"You must smile through your tears and keep moving with the faith that there is a brighter side somewhere."

"You must smile through your tears."

"We are bound by shared blood and shared sacrifices."

"We must share our burdens and our joys with each other once again."

"We cannot be satisfied."

"We must not save the world and lose our souls."

"Of course democrats are for a strong defense."

"How can anyone say that we are safer, stronger, or better?"

"Of course Democrats believe that there are times that we must stand and fight. And we have."

"We have in the last few years spent more than we can afford."

"Separate the salesman from the product."

"And, ladies and gentlemen, please think of this -- the nation must think of this: What kind of Supreme Court will we have?"

"We believe in a government strong enough to use words like 'love' and 'compassion.'"

"While survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order."

"We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a proper government should be: the idea of family, mutuality, the sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all, feeling one another's pain, sharing one another's blessings -- reasonably, h...

"She will open with one magnificent stroke, a whole new frontier for the United States."

"The evidence for impeachment, high crimes and misdemeanors, is so overwhelming, that it is almost as if the Democrats are saying Bush/Cheney are so impeachable we can't impeach them."

"He was born in 1936, so he has a scope of history."

"Solar is really the way to go, for all the reasons I'm sure you know."

"They got to give investors more control over the companies. Cause if they have more responsibility they are not going to take some of the shenanigans that cost them the whole company like WorldCom and Enron."

"I was waiting for my results and I just knew. I felt like there was something wrong."

"Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing."

"I love America. So do you and so does John McCain."

"So lets have a serious debate."

"Look, we shouldn’t romanticize Musharraf."

"We must raise up the simple proposition: If we lift up a program to feed the hungry, they'll come running; if we lift up a program to study war no more, our youth will come running; if we lift up a program to put America back to work, and an alternative to welfare and despair, they will come working."

"If we lift up a program to study war no more, our youth will come running."

"But just because you're born in the slum does not mean the slum is born in you, and you can rise above it if your mind is made up."

"We leave this place looking for the sunny side because there's a brighter side somewhere."

"Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. In the end, faith will not disappoint."

"Suffering breeds character."

"To be strong leaders, we must be long-suffering."

"But the South, I tell you, is unnaturally conservative. The South is the poorest region in our nation and, therefore, the least to conserve."

"And if the sparks fly, so be it."

"Now click the link and exercise your constitutional right to speak your mind."

"One of the things that she had was a stability and a sense of place that I think was very complimentary to my traveling everywhere. And it's that stability that we've been able to provide to our daughters that has been very important to me as well."

"The community that she grew up in in Chicago had become my community, my adopted community because I had worked there before I even went to law school and knew Michelle. So the South Side of Chicago was my home at that point."

"Right, and she doesn't know that he's there, 'cause I haven't really had time to tell her, like, 'Oh, Spencer moved back in.'"

"She'll just be here for, like, two days."

"So rude. I'm so embarrassed. I'm sorry."

"Cause I want somebody who is independent. Somebody who is able to say to me you know what Mr. President I think you're wrong on this and here's why. And will give me…who will help me think through major issues."

"The final thing is I want a President who shares with me a passion to make the lives of the American people better than they are right now."

"Are you seriously asking me that?"

"You've seen moths."

"Which is a perfect setting for a comedy."

"Well, I didn't realize that when you get up in front of an audience, it actually, you know, is scary."

"They just sit there, and you have to make them laugh."

"Those are the subjects, I don't have any of the jokes."

"So when he became a salesman--salesman you know, they just go out and they kind of structure their own day, and you just wander from store to store selling whatever you're selling, then he did well.

"He used to like this joke about this guy, um, who comes home and his wife is in the bathroom, and he suspects that there's some hanky panky is going on and he pulls back the shower curtain and there's another man behind the shower curtain. And he says to the man, what are you doing here? And the guy goes, well, e...

"Well, I don't speak in a scripted format in real life."

"They're not writing the material, they're, you know, not directing, they're not producing, they're just kind of stand here, put this jacket on, and say this when I point at you."

"He really does bring some magic to it that you go, I don't know where that came from. There are actors that are geniuses."

"Um, I had seen comedians do this."

"For 26 years in Washington John McCain has played the same old games. We just can't afford more of the same."

"Specific times. Split times, how I want to get to those times. And then Bob takes care of hopefully getting to those times in training."

"They're all attainable for me, but some are a lot higher than others."

"Doing the same kind of stuff in the water."

"My weight's about the same."

"Leading to Athens, the biggest thing was winning seven gold medals."

"Leading to Athens, the biggest thing was winning seven gold medals. You know, that was all over the place. All the media was saying that."

"What I see them do in their sports is sick."

"Swimming everyday because I love it."

"It's been so long I think last time I was here if you worked in Harrisburg you didn't even need to have Dennis Hogan's number on your speed dial."

"I'm a Libertarian. How many Libertarians does it take to screw in a light bulb. None, they sit back and let the free market do it."

"We as Libertarians will shrink the government so much it will fit inside your back pocket."

"Maybe your struggling just to pay the mortgage on your home. But recently John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong."

"Then again that same day when asked how many houses he owns, McCain lost track. He couldn't remember. Well, it's seven. Seven houses. And here is one house America can't afford to let John McCain move into."

"You know when I get up there. I can just get in the water and swim as fast as I can and that's all I can think about."

"We've been with each other for so long. We work well together."

"Stupid things."

"I think it's good for us to have something like that."

"We're around each other so much, there is so much love."

"Just relax and have some fun with some friends."

"Relax a little bit, catch up on some sleep."

"I brought my fellow I met and my Uncle Samuel. Some people down to see it."

"Actually, it's been somewhat fascinating to watch."

"Your mother's still living."

"So when I, when I graduated from UMass, she knocked down a security guard."

"She said, 'Don't ask for so much!'"

"Their dollar is stronger than ours!"

"Unless you graduated from high school and you've got a steady job."

"Object to see if his sperm cells work."

"I caught a shark. I was fishing."

"It was a large sucker."

"Got it on the boat, fish looked sad."

"And the brother was haulin' it, you know what I mean? And the dog got right up to him and the brother turned around and said, 'Sit!'"

"They'll go straight up and then land. Referee be counting, 7, 8, 9, 10."

"And my greatest fear is that same guy is somewhere out in the audience tonight."

"And my greatest fear is that same guy is somewhere out there in the audience tonight, and he's going to cut me down to size, because where I grew up there really wasn?t much tolerance for self-importance, people who put on airs."

"They talked about war and Washington and what this country needed. They talked straight talk. And it came from people who were living their lives as best they could. And that?s what we?re gonna do tonight. We?re gonna tell how the cow ate the cabbage."

"This Republican Administration treats us as if we were pieces of a puzzle that can?t fit together. They've tried to put us into compartments and separate us from each other. Their political theory is 'divide and conquer.' They?ve suggested time and time again that what is of interest to one group of Americans is no...

"We can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else."

"America is a country where small business owners must succeed, because they are the bedrock, backbone of our economy."

"We believe our kids deserve public schools where students can learn and teachers can teach."

"And we wanna believe that our parents will have a good retirement and that we will too. We Democrats believe that social security is a pact that can not be broken."

"And we believe that America must have leaders who show us that our struggles amount to something and contribute to something larger -- leaders who want us to be all that we can be. We want leaders like Jesse Jackson."

"Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls."

"He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."

"I guess that's their Central American strategy."

"Kyle, suck my balls."

"Yes, come on in peasant Kyle, and pay homage to the Sultan's balls."

"Well I think you need to say the honest things. You need to let the nominee know who you are. What your expectations are. Understand his or her expectations."

"Four years ago when I spoke, I was speaking as somebody who was in a supportive role to the nominee. And because I was new I was presenting my version of the American story."

"Thirty thousand in this world die from starvation."

"I am just so honored that you are here cause things have to change."

"I've been in San Francisco now, since last September."

"You know, we all have the same heart."

"We all want the same things for our children and our families. Some security, some prosperity."

"We got messages of support from all over the world. I got 30,000 pieces of snail mail."

"I got 30,000 pieces of snail mail delivered to Crawford to me that summer. The postmaster was definitely happy to see us leave."

"In the five weeks of my very short retirement I was able to replenish my bank account and get my health back."

"I knew this all along. I suspected it."

"One of the reasons that a lot of people on the left, so called left, were smearing me is because I publicly left the Democratic Party."

"The only thing that Nancy Pelosi can do to end this war is to stop funding it."

"And she's the Speaker of the House and she's the one who has the power over what gets put on the floor to go for votes."

"One of the problems, the complete stranglehold of our democracy is due to the two party system."

"Before the occupation or the invasion, the initial invasion, people like Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld were saying it was going to be six months tops."

"Having over 1,000 bases around the world, and these occupations that are just sucking the life out of our economy and our families."

"We don't hear about the fact that 6 or 7 Iraq veterans per day commit suicide."

"It wouldn?t do very good for me to go down and take my $10 out of the bank, but if everybody did that it would be very significant."

"We have 300 million voices, that should be screaming in unison for accountability, for peace, for prosperity."

"We need to get 10,198 signatures."

"It's about a man, gets on a train and he's scared to fly, right. And he gets on a train and he sees a murder and they throw him off."

"We had a scene on the train, and Gene Wilder's crazy."

"Should be serious about it."

"Hangs it over the door seal, you know. Keep the ghosts away and spirits."

"She used to do that to the insurance man when the insurance man come, you know. He'd be wanting this dollar twelve, you know, and she'd spit when he leave."

"Yeah, and she was strange."

"Because I've worked so hard to become so good at it."

"I shouldn't lose it."

"I just think, pretty much, it's all about my style."

"Asking them for support and they are supporting me and I'll just tell them thanks."

"I was really good at soccer."

"Asafa's getting back into shape."

"I just keep it going. I like to have fun just to stay relaxed."

"I think that you should pay attention to where we go down the line. This is a special week because we've got quite a bit of attention on us through the convention and it gives us the lattitude to make different decisions about our advertising."

"And I think the fact that he picked Joe Biden as his running shows his wisdom."

"I went into the three-minute competition wanting to do six good dives in the prelim, semi, and final, and I didn't even do that."

"You suck. Go burn in Hell. Satan WILL enjoy torturing you."

"So folks are really feeling the impact of 8 years without a real solid domestic policy. And I think people know that we can't keep doing the same thing, the same way and expect a different result."

"When I was asked that question I still thought I was gonna be President."

"He kept saying we'd get troops out in six months. He's finally saying a year."

"But the first thing I will do, is I will be able to settle this war in Iraq quickly."

"Sometimes."

"It'll kind of stop me for a little while from wanting to work."

"My brother. Well, me and my brother are about the same age."

"Hopefully it's something somewhat okay."

"Well, my job as like an actress is to make them super different."

"That's so weird."

"It's the same then, as it is now."

"We still do the same stuff, which is so cool."

"For me is that's what keeps me strong."

"I know how strong she is as a person."