If you read with empathy what Lincoln went through, then you realize what you're going through is nothing compared to what he went through.

I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

History will prove me right. This is an exercise in folly.

The world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership.

The budget caps were busted, mightily so. And we are reviewing with people like Judd Gregg from New Hampshire and others some budgetary reform measures that will reinstate - you know, possibly reinstate budgetary discipline. But the caps no longer - the caps, I guess they're there. But they didn't mean much.

Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.