If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

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

The will of the United States can be shaken by suiciders and suiciders who are willing to drive up to a Red Cross center, a center of international help and aid and comfort, and just kill. [...] The strategy remains the same. The tactics to respond to more suiciders driving cars will alter on the ground.

We should - we will - welcome people of faith into the political process... It is essential that believers enter the arena. Your involvement in politics helps determine how well our democracy works. We have finally learned that government programs cannot solve our problems. Government can hand out money, but government cannot put hope in our hearts or a sense of purpose in our lives.

What people can't possibly imagine is what it's like to have two presidents who have a relationship as father and son.

And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for pre-emptive action.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say ''Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.'' They're changed. Trust me.