I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

I don't bring God into my life to - to, you know, kind of be a political person.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.

I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.

There is only one course of action against terrorists: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home.

If you're asking me as the President, would I understand reality, I do.