I have something else to ask you, to ask every American. I ask you to pray for this great nation.
The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
I’m going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it’s the mother in me.
As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.
I’m not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it’s nice and safe and secure.
I wish I wasn’t the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don’t.
Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country.
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.
I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what’s moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.
Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace.
I’m the master of low expectations.
By promoting liberty abroad, we will build a safer world. By encouraging liberty at home, we will build a more hopeful America.
We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.
There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant. And that is the force of human freedom.
So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.
I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn’t here.
I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake.
This is my maiden voyage. My first speech since I was the president of the United States and I couldn’t think of a better place to give it than Calgary, Canada.
I’m going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there’s an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.
One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people’s money to help prevent there to be a crisis.