A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

You cannot lead an alliance if you say you're going alone.

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.

In time, perhaps, we will mark the memory of September 11th in stone and metal, something we can show children, as yet unborn, to help them understand what happened on this minute and on this day. But for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we’ll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.

Terrorists like bin Laden are serious about mass murder - and all of us must take their declared intentions seriously. They seek to impose a heartless system of totalitarian control throughout the Middle East, and arm themselves with weapons of mass murder. . . . Their aim is to seize power in Iraq, and use it as a safe haven to launch attacks against America and the world.