We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

Not every action requires military action. As a matter of fact, military action is the very last resort for us.

Reinvention means you're kind of re-creating somebody. Well, I'm the same person, in terms of values. My priorities - my faith, my family, my friends, the values of personal responsibility and universality of freedom, and "to whom much is given, much is required" - haven't changed [since presidency].

You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

The challenge in Iraq is to provide a security plan such that a political process can go forward. I'm sure you all are tired of hearing me say 12 million Iraqi voted. But it's an indication about the desire for people to live in a free society. That's what that means. The only way to defeat Al Qaida ideology in the long term is to defeat it through another ideology, a competing ideology, one that - where government responds to the will of the people.

It's important that the United States not forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001. I assure you, I'm not going to forget them.