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.
Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.
The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.
I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor. I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t going to work. Therapy isn’t going to cause terrorists to change their mind.
We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.
America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.