I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage.

I don't like dynasty and legacy. But I think there's a period in the U.S. history where Bushes have been in the forefront.

My grandkids say, "Reality Bites." O.K., but it also challenges and rewards... I believe our best days are yet to come.

Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.