"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure."

"So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?"

"I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system."

"I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write."

"The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them."

"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."

"Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States."

"I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way."

"The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative."

"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants."

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."

"It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue."

"Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation."

"We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans."

"I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve."

"This young century will be liberty's century."

"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace."

"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."

"Our nation must come together to unite."

"You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."

"I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest."

"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."

"I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand."

"Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people."

"After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers."

"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."

"America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life."

"Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue."

"The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom."

"Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do."

"I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger."

"Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are."

"I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes."

"For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place."

"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."

"The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true."

"When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart."

"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."

"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people."

"The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom."

"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."

"Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction."

"I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch."

"One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity."

"America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman."

"I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."

"States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live."

"People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened."

"The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger."

"Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough."