I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence.

The press in America has never been stronger and never been freer and never been more vibrant, sometimes to my chagrin, and a lot of times to my delight.

I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office.

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.

We really don't need the United Nations approval to act. When it comes to our security, we do not need anyones permission.

There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like.

One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there to be a crisis.