The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.

I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will be a more hopeful place.

The United States of America stands for: the ability for people to worship freely, the ability for people to vote and to express their opinion freely is something we hold dear.

But we cannot allow weapons of mass destruction to fall into the hands of terrorists. I will not allow that to happen.

We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas.

For me, I learned from my father that when it's over, it's over.

I think that not criticizing my successor is a statement unto itself, in terms of trying to create an environment where people are able to have a meaningful discussion or debate without trash talk.