This Thanksgiving, Americans are especially thankful for our freedom, and we are especially thankful to you, those who keep us free.

The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

One thing you had to learn [after the presidency] was that you no longer had the sense of responsibility that became ingrained in your system.

Imagine a world in which you had Saddam Hussein, who had the capacity to make a weapon of mass destruction, who was paying suiciders to kill innocent life. Imagine what the world would be like with him in power. The idea is to try to help change the Middle East. Part of the reason we went into Iraq was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction. It turns out he didn't, but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction.

I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.

I believe that people want to be free. And that we face an enemy that murders innocent people to try to shake our psychology to get us to leave.

I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it and say, "Now I understand." I hope my detractors read it and say, "Well, I better understand."