A good run adds a little bounce to my step. I get a certain amount of self-esteem from it.

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

History will prove me right. This is an exercise in folly.

Good stewardship of the environment is not just a personal responsibility, it is a public value... Our duty is to use the land well, and sometimes not to use it at all. This is our responsibility as citizens, but more than that, it is our calling as stewards of the earth.

There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

In 2002, a lot of the pundits didn't get the off-year elections right. In 2004, a lot of people thought I was going down eight days before the election.

Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.