First of all, you never retire. At least I don't retire.

The will of the United States can be shaken by suiciders and suiciders who are willing to drive up to a Red Cross center, a center of international help and aid and comfort, and just kill. [...] The strategy remains the same. The tactics to respond to more suiciders driving cars will alter on the ground.

[People] don't judge you on what would have happened in the absence of a decision.

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.

If you are young child and you've lost mother and dad to AIDS and rich nations sit on the sidelines not caring, you will become a frustrated person and a hopeless person.

America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray.

My point is that she's [Laura Bush] busy and I'm busy, which makes our marriage not only interesting but exciting.