I'm the master of low expectations.

And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for pre-emptive action.

God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.

I want everybody to hear loud and clear that I'm going to be the president of everybody.

America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.

We really don't need the United Nations approval to act. When it comes to our security, we do not need anyones permission.

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.