I served. And now it's time for the new man to serve. I have zero desire to be in the limelight.

We`ll fight terrorists in Iraq, we'll fight them across the world, and we will stay in the fight until the fight is won.

Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever.

The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president.

When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of freedom apply fully to Africa and Latin America and the entire Islamic world. The peoples of the Islamic nations want and deserve the same freedoms and opportunities as people in every nation. And their governments should listen to their hopes.