I believe the world would have been a lot worse off if Saddam [Hussein] were in power today.

The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country, obviously.

Helping people helps defines a strategy that makes public and private moneys more effective when it comes to helping save lives.

For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

I'm a content person and I'm content knowing that I gave it my all when I was president.

Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.

I dont want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of speeches, getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on message to win?