Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I'm interested in what is constitutional and I'm interested in what works.

I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.

Well from a personal perspective, quitting drinking is a decision I felt good about.

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.

God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood.

We'll succeed unless we quit.

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.