When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.

We can't afford to lose control of our own borders or to take on new financial burdens at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care and the education of our own people.

There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.

With almost no time to decide, they [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. And they did it as citizens. They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ­ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.

Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.