One thing you had to learn [after the presidency] was that you no longer had the sense of responsibility that became ingrained in your system.

I'm playing golf. I ride my mountain bike. A lot. I think it's very important for me and other people my age to continue to exercise.

It was much easier for me to endure the belittling than it was to watch my dad get belittled.

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

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas.