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.

I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.

At Odessa we became Texans, and proud of it.

We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried.

I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.