So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.

I feel a special kinship with our military personnel, veterans, and their families. After all, two of my decisions sent them into harm's way.

The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.

I was able to adjust initially by plunging right into the book and the Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University. And it turns out that there is a good way to make a living by giving speeches.

We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.

I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.