The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

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.

I thought Colin Powell did a fine job as secretary of state.

The German asparagus are fabulous.

The world must understand that it is the time to come together to address the root cause of the problem, and the problem is you have a state within a state. You had people launch attacks on a sovereign nation without the consent of the government in the country in which they are lodged.

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.