I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

I feel like God wants me to run for president. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen. I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it.

"Reinvention" is a word that doesn't fit into my vocabulary.

We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands for... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's terror, and there's missiles and I'm certain of this, too: I'm certain to maintain the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm certain that under this administration, morale in the military is dangerously low.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.

We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.