They've seen me make decisions, they've seen me under trying times, they've seen me weep, they've seen me laugh, they've seen me hug. And they know who I am, and I believe they're comfortable with the fact that they know I'm not going to shift principles or shift positions based upon polls and focus groups.

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

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.

I think all presidents should take the long view of history.

We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.