I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail.

They said, "You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people." And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work.

The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production.

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.