The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

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."

We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.

My point is that she's [Laura Bush] busy and I'm busy, which makes our marriage not only interesting but exciting.

Most people in America understand that the rich people hire good accountants and figure out how not to necessarily pay all the taxes.

Imagine a world in which you had Saddam Hussein, who had the capacity to make a weapon of mass destruction, who was paying suiciders to kill innocent life. Imagine what the world would be like with him in power. The idea is to try to help change the Middle East. Part of the reason we went into Iraq was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction. It turns out he didn't, but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction.

The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.