"Like a beacon, America can once again provide a clear light for the world—dissolving the fog of injustice, illuminating the path to a new century. We need a strong military for a new century, and we need one based on hope, not fear. As Robert F. Kennedy once wrote, ‘Our answer is the world’s hope.’ Our answer is the world’s hope. We will need imagination and courage to imagine great possibilities, to create a world where terrorism belongs to the past. We must, at the same time, rely on our heritage: a time when we were admired by the world, where we shared, with generosity and good faith, our ideals of truth, justice, and equality."
– John Edwards (The former Senator from North Carolina, not the Calvinist who wrote, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God")