There’s no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
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.
And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.
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.
I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.
It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.
It’s going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
This young century will be liberty’s century.
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.
The legislature’s job is to write law. It’s the executive branch’s job to interpret law.
The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
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.
This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.
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.
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.
For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.