The administration took care of a source of instability in Iraq. Envision a world in which Saddam Hussein was rushing for a nuclear weapon to compete against Iran. My decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the correct decision in my judgment. We didn't find the weapons we thought we would find or the weapons everybody thought he had. But he was a significant source of instability.

To give law enforcement the additional tools it needs to track down terror here at home.

The course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others.

I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

Even grief recedes with time and grace. But our resolve must not pass. Each of us will remember what happened that day, and to whom it happened. We'll remember the moment the news came -- where we were and what we were doing. Some will remember an image of a fire, or a story of rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever.

We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'