Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.

What I tell people all the time is that bodies are made in the kitchen, not in the gym. You cannot exercise a bad diet. It's just impossible. Unless you want to be the ultra-marathoner or someone like a Michael Phelps that's swimming 70 or 80,000 meters in a week, you cannot exercise a bad diet.

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education.

I happen to be a conservative, but one need not accept the Right's theories wholesale to acknowledge the sometimes negative effects of government action on health care.