When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.