You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us vs them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

I'm the master of low expectations.

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.

I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.