Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.

You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

I think the American people are sophisticated enough and wise enough to make judgments about the candidates and wade through the charges and countercharges that come with the [election 2004] campaign.