We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy.

If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.

Two-thirds of Americans believe that, after a baby's heart is beating and they can feel pain, that they need some protection.

The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.

I don't think I underestimated [Vladimir Putin], but I think that I underestimated the degree to which, in this new information age, it is possible for misinformation for cyber hacking and so forth to have an impact on our open societies, our open systems, to insinuate themselves into our democratic practices in ways that I think are accelerating.

We are not a nation that says 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says 'out of many, we are one.'

I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy.