The problem is the people who tend to be the best organized are the most radical and the most vicious.

Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.

No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

The United States isn't going to do anything that it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, we'll be capable of doing it.

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

It is worth reminding that being president is a tough job for anybody, and particularly so in the information age. There's such a glut of information. Anything a president says or does is picked up on the Internet or the 24/7 news media and criticized almost instantly. Leaders persuade through their words and as such their words need to be measured and well chosen. It is a tough job.