Issues are won based upon whether or not you can keep this economy strong; elections are won based upon economic issues and national security issues.

I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people.

Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the better it off it is for the American people.

[People] don't judge you on what would have happened in the absence of a decision.

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player.

And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.