As Gerhard Schröder said in the Oval Office, a democratic Iraq is important not only to Germany, but to Europe, and he's right.

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about.

We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction.

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

This Thanksgiving, Americans are especially thankful for our freedom, and we are especially thankful to you, those who keep us free.