I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.

Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty ever written are lies to be burned and destroyed and forgotten.

I'm joyful in my religious belief.

The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror... so today I vetoed it.

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.