The terrorists do not understand America. The American people do not falter under threat, and we will not allow our future to be determined by car bombers and assassins.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

We're going to get [bin Laden]. Dead or alive, it doesn't matter to me.

If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.

Free people will set the course of history.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.