As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

I think it's very important for the American president to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what I say. That's why I try to be as clearly as I can.

Where we find young democracies, we need to help them. Where we find the enemy, we need to fight them. And that's exactly the Bush policy.

It should make people nervous when non-transparent regimes, that have announced that they've got nuclear warheads, fire missiles. This is not the way you conduct business in the world. This is not the way that peaceful nations conduct their affairs.

It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London

We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself.

Something that is completely unwinnable. I mean, it becomes unwinnable if we decide to leave [Afghanistan].