I'm just beginning to get a sense for ways I can use golf - or perhaps mountain biking at some point in time - to stay focused on causes that are dear to my heart.

They want the federal government controlling the Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.

I'm comfortable that I made the best decisions I possibly could.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. Dealing with Congress is a matter of give and take. The president doesn't get everything he wants, the Congress doesn't get everything they want. But we're finding good common ground.

I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.

I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

[T]he people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East.