America's freedom is the example to which the world expires.

I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.

War is never cheap or easy.

When America is stronger, the world is safer.

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

I like a colorful sock. I'm a sock man.

Extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different - and perhaps barren - outcome.