If you believe that the job of the federal government is to secure this country, it's really important for you to understand that success in Iraq is part of securing the country.

People sometimes have to correct my English. I knew I had a problem when Arnold Schwarzenegger started doing it.

...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't make me think I'm a better person than you are, by the way. Because one of the great admonitions in the Good Book is, don't try to take a speck out of your eye if I've got a log in my own.

For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy.

Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.