While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm our faith.

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.

Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.

I mean, accidents happen. You learn from them and you try to make sure they don't happen again.

Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States.

The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, bio-technology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.