We must have the attitude that every child in America - regardless of where they're raised or how they're born - can learn.

Nothing can be further than the truth.

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

What Texans can dream, Texans can do.

I do know that it’s important for us to support the Iraqi people, who have shown incredible courage in their desire to live in a free society. And if we ever give up the desire to help people who live in freedom, we will have lost our soul as a nation, as far as I’m concerned.