Golf teaches you honesty. It teaches you discipline. It gives you a strong appreciation of nature. And personal responsibility, something that lacks in our society at times. I mean, it's only your fault, you can't blame anyone else when you shank it. Or pick the wrong club.

As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

This thaw took a while to thaw, it's going to take a while to unthaw.

It's exciting for me to see [Laura Bush] busy and out there enjoying what she's doing. But we always make time to be with each other as well.

It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.

The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but -- and to the extent that we find weakness, we'll move.