As a matter of fact, it's in our interests that we help reformers across the Middle East achieve their objectives. This is the fundamental challenge of the 21st century.

I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.

I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.

Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice - made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.

I would like to remembered as President as somebody who did not compromise principles in order to try to be loved or liked.

We got plenty of money in Washington. What we need is more priority.