The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime.

America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.

Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

We ask for nothing more than the chance to blaze our own trail, and yet each of us is only here because somebody, somewhere, helped us find our path. That`s part of what makes America exceptional. We are family and we`ll do anything to help each other along the way.

You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.