The United States and rich countries cannot change Africa from within. It has to impose reform on Africa; it has to come from within.

As Gerhard Schröder said in the Oval Office, a democratic Iraq is important not only to Germany, but to Europe, and he's right.

We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.

I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.

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

Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along. And even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel.

This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country.