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

That's important when you are running an organization so that the people who work with you know what you believe in and know those beliefs won't change.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

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

I will always believe our nation's best days lie ahead.

I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state.

The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They are mistaken.