If someone came to me and said, "Your strategy in your post-presidency is brilliant," as if I had figured out a way to make me look better, to me, that analysis is amusing.

I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the US military to promote it.

These aren't joyous times when we have war in Iraq. These are challenging times, and they're difficult times, and they're straining the psyche of our country. I understand that.

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come here. We're in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them. No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.