I regret not finding Osama Bin Laden.

If someone came to me and said, "Your strategy in your post-presidency is brilliant," as if I had figured out a way to make me look better, to me, that analysis is amusing.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.

I'd like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace.

If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!