This is a decent and honorable country - and resilient, too. We've been through a lot together. We've met challenges and faced dangers, and we know that more lie ahead. Yet we can go forward with confidence - because the State of our Union is strong, our cause in the world is right, and tonight that cause goes on. God bless.

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

I don't think it's good for America to have a former president undermine a current president.

The administration took care of a source of instability in Iraq. Envision a world in which Saddam Hussein was rushing for a nuclear weapon to compete against Iran. My decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the correct decision in my judgment. We didn't find the weapons we thought we would find or the weapons everybody thought he had. But he was a significant source of instability.

After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.

I think there is some methodology in my travels.

I think all presidents should take the long view of history.