The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.

In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

I am in control here, in the White House.

Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.