Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them.

Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

By promoting liberty abroad, we will build a safer world. By encouraging liberty at home, we will build a more hopeful America.

We're going to get [bin Laden]. Dead or alive, it doesn't matter to me.