"It's a new day, it's a new state, it's a new election. I'm not ceding any vote now. I'm staying in this race till there's a nominee."

"Blessed with opportunity, and intent on the challenges of work and family, our own lives often seem too full and hectic to take notice of offenses that seem distant from our own reality. There is also the threat in a society passionate about its liberty that we can become desensitized to the dehumanizing effect of the obscenity and hostility that pervades much of popular culture."

-- John McCain, at Oakland University in Michigan, pledging to fight religious persecution and human trafficking