The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you.

Effective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are two steps removed from a number associated with a terrorist organization instead of three.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can make sure that criminals don't have guns in their hands. We can make certain that those who are mentally deranged are not getting a hold of handguns. We can trace guns that have been used in crimes to unscrupulous gun dealers that may be selling to straw purchasers and dumping them on the streets.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.