When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

I believe we're making really good progress in Iraq.

I really don't want to in the press, genuinely don't want to be in the press.

As I mentioned we have arrested or detained over 1,000 people here in America to determine to find out what they know.

Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in God and God alone. Theirs is a story of defiance and oppression, and patience in tribulation reaching back to the exodus and their exile. That story continued in the founding of the state of Israel. That story continues in the defense of the state of Israel.

I'm not surprised that people are unsettled because of war. The enemy has got a powerful tool, and that is to get on your TV screen by killing innocent people. And my job is to continue to remind the people it's worth it, we're not going to retreat hastily, and we're not going to pull out of there before the job is done. And we have got a plan for victory.