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.

Where we find young democracies, we need to help them. Where we find the enemy, we need to fight them. And that's exactly the Bush policy.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.

In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.

The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

But I also made it clear to him [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.