They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.

You cannot lead an alliance if you say you're going alone.

We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

This is a decent and honorable country - and resilient, too. We've been through a lot together. We've met challenges and faced dangers, and we know that more lie ahead. Yet we can go forward with confidence - because the State of our Union is strong, our cause in the world is right, and tonight that cause goes on. God bless.

I encourage employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land.

That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.

I... you know, I... look, after 9/11, I vowed to protect this country.