I think, to a certain extent the economy and these decisions I made to protect the country matter a lot.

I believe the world would have been a lot worse off if Saddam [Hussein] were in power today.

No matter what your politics is, we ought to be thanking people for volunteering.

You can imagine these radicals getting a hold of a country where they're able to pull oil off the market to run the price of oil up to extract concession.

We waited for Congress to act. They couldn't act on the issue. So I just went ahead and signed an executive order which will unleash - [applause] - which says the federal agencies will not discriminate against faith-based programs. They ought to welcome the armies of compassion as opposed to turning them away.

That's important when you are running an organization so that the people who work with you know what you believe in and know those beliefs won't change.

Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing a person to worship against his will violated the principles of both Christianity and civility.