The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Always chew on your pretzels before you swallow.

People expect those in authority to take on big problems and to solve them. We had an opportunity to reform Social Security in a way that would have protected people's benefits and created a solvent system. Younger workers would be confident that the money they were putting into the system would be available to them when they retired. It was a missed opportunity. I regret that.

America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.

We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment.

We ought to make the pie higher.