It's important for the writers of the presidential daily brief to feel comfortable that the documents will never be politicized and/or unnecessarily exposed for public purview.

I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I've tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max, and would have committed troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq knowing what I know today.

How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country.

We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all.

The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.

God speaks through me.