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.

I developed a reputation as a "hothead" because I got in the face of a lot of reporters and they thought I was just a hotheaded person. What they didn't understand was that I was motivated by love.

Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

My point is that she's [Laura Bush] busy and I'm busy, which makes our marriage not only interesting but exciting.

I... you know, I... look, after 9/11, I vowed to protect this country.

We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.