I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

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.

This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.

Our priorities is our faith.

All human life is precious.

I think I was unprepared for war.