Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open.

Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein: 'You're a threat'. And the 9/11 attacks accentuated that threat, as far as I'm concerned.

I have something else to ask you, to ask every American. I ask you to pray for this great nation.

Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a... you're a... you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity.

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.

The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.