Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

We are seeing some challenges and some changes in American business, American enterprise, but the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is a reminder of things that must never change: the passion for excellence, the drive to innovate, the hard work that goes with any successful enterprise.

There were tactical decisions that I wish I could have done differently: mission accomplished, not revealing my drunken driving charge prior to my run for the presidency, flying over New Orleans on Katrina and the pictures being released and people saying, "he's aloof and doesn't really care."

Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.

I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.

Nobody really likes to be lectured a lot. And, therefore, if you want to be an effective person, what you don't do is scold the person publicly all the time.