The message is for everybody who wears the uniform: get ready. The United States will do what it takes to win this war... And this is an administration that is going to dedicate ourselves to winning that war.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain.

People shouldn't read into venue locations someone's heart.

I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born.

I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I felt we ought to do it.

I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.