I want to remind you right quick what this country has been through, and the challenges this economy had faced over the last three years. First, we went through a recession. That means we were going backwards.

Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science.

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

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

We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.

I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.