
*"The differences between Bob McDonnell and me could not be starker."
*"Virginia's more Democratic than it was 4 years ago; the differences between Bob and I will be defined a little bit better than they were 4 years ago, and I'm gonna win."
*"I've never really dealt in left or right, or liberal or conservative, this is about the future of Virginia."
*"I don't think I'm to the right of Bob on guns; I think I am what I am...guns and alcohol don't mix, that point should be made clear."
*"Frankly, this is one of those issues that gets distorted all to pieces. My positions on guns frankly aren't that much different than Mark Warner or Jim Webb. You know, I think it's gonna take somebody from a part of the state where the Second Amendment is held in pretty high esteem to bring commonsense to issues like, for example, the gun show loophole."
*"I have talked with President Obama and I expect he'll be in Virginia campaigning with me this fall."
*"I'm confident I'll have all the resources necessary to run this race."
*"I'm not gonna give up on one square inch of territory in the general election."
*"We just raised the tobacco tax...I'm not going to propose a tobacco tax increase."