"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a
strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong
friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going
to change."  - speaking in Amman, Jordan

"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes
and I see many of them in the audience here today, our sense of patriotism is
particularly strong."

"I've now been in 57 states.  I think one left to go." - at a campaign stop
in Beaverton, Oregon.

"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity.
She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on
the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred
in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong
way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."

"Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions." – to reporters after a
news conference

"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand
people died and an entire town destroyed." - on a Kansas tornado that killed
12 people