If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, [it] could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.

I'm not surprised that people are unsettled because of war. The enemy has got a powerful tool, and that is to get on your TV screen by killing innocent people. And my job is to continue to remind the people it's worth it, we're not going to retreat hastily, and we're not going to pull out of there before the job is done. And we have got a plan for victory.

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

People sometimes have to correct my English. I knew I had a problem when Arnold Schwarzenegger started doing it.

One thing you had to learn [after the presidency] was that you no longer had the sense of responsibility that became ingrained in your system.

It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.

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