The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror... so today I vetoed it.

The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.

We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?

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.

That's really the fundamental question we face here in the beginning of this 21st century is whether or not we believe as a nation and others believe it is possible to defeat this ideology.

I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone.

I grieve for every death.'It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.