Having purpose. I had purpose during my presidency, and I've got purpose after my presidency.

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.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

Natural gas is hemispheric; I like to call it hemispheric in nature, because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge. We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors.