Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

We need a common enemy to unite us.

You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

I love to watch football.I actually really love to watch almost any competition with a score at the end.

This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of World War II to the extraordinary events of the end of the Cold War and a system that was one of prosperity and peace for a lot of people, including for the United States.

America's still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.