And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.

How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country.

I'm a patient man. And when I say I'm a patient man, I mean I'm a patient man.

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice... Our finest moments have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

You know, nobody likes to see innocent people die. Nobody wants to turn on their TV on a daily basis and see havoc wrought by terrorists.

[T]he course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others. Whatever action is required, whenever action is necessary, I will defend the freedom and security of the American people.