John Edwards

I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different.

America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected.

Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to garner votes, to convince people they should support one political party or the other, I think that is a huge mistake.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.

I'm their sole parent, and there is nothing more important than being the best father I can be.

I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.