This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it and say, "Now I understand." I hope my detractors read it and say, "Well, I better understand."

Sometimes armchair quarterbacks are doing it to enhance their own image. I'm just not comfortable with that idea.

We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.

You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.

If you read with empathy what Lincoln went through, then you realize what you're going through is nothing compared to what he went through.

You have to be optimistic about golf. I mean it's physically demanding, particularly if you're on one leg. But it's psychologically demanding regardless of your physical infirmities. I mean, it's a tough sport. You've got to be disciplined and optimistic. And if you have a bad hole, you've got to be optimistic that you'll do well on the next hole.