History will look back, and I'm fully prepared to accept any mistakes that history judges to my administration, because the president makes the decisions, the president has to take the responsibility.

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

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

We should - we will - welcome people of faith into the political process... It is essential that believers enter the arena. Your involvement in politics helps determine how well our democracy works. We have finally learned that government programs cannot solve our problems. Government can hand out money, but government cannot put hope in our hearts or a sense of purpose in our lives.

As the president, you're pretty much in a bubble. And golf is a good way to get out of the bubble.

Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too.

So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.