I feel that it's important our professionals have the tools to keep the enemy, to stop their attacks.

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.

If I look back to when I was 20 and somebody said you'd be president, I would have said no way.

The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.

I feel a sense of obligation to our troops and their families because of the decisions that I made. So I'm involved with veterans.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.