The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.

I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

I regret the fact that Saddam [Hussein] didn't have weapons of mass destruction that we thought. I don't regret removing him from power.

All of us here today understand this: We do not fight Islam, we fight against evil.

I believe that people want to be free. And that we face an enemy that murders innocent people to try to shake our psychology to get us to leave.

You know, I'm the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so, before I arrived in President, during I arrived in President.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.