We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.

The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.

These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion.

When your economy is kind of ooching along, it's important to let people have more of their own money.

Imagine a world in which you had Saddam Hussein, who had the capacity to make a weapon of mass destruction, who was paying suiciders to kill innocent life. Imagine what the world would be like with him in power. The idea is to try to help change the Middle East. Part of the reason we went into Iraq was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction. It turns out he didn't, but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction.

If you haven't doubted, you probably haven't thought very hard about what you believe.

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