Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.
I don’t worry about long-term history. I won’t be around to read it.
In the future history will be made only by us.
I believe in open government. I’ve always believed in open government. I don’t e-mail, however. And there’s a reason: I don’t want you reading my personal stuff.
I don’t think you’re entitled to read my mail between my daughters and me.
If we’re an arrogant nation, they’ll resent us.
Always chew on your pretzels before you swallow.
The press in America has never been stronger and never been freer and never been more vibrant, sometimes to my chagrin, and a lot of times to my delight.
I’ve been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I’ve failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.
It is human choices that move events.
Evil knows no holiday.
The worst of Nature brings out the best in our fellow human beings.
I was taught that we should look after the beam in our own eye before searching for the mote in someone else’s.
I’m not a textbook player. I’m a gut player.
You cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one’s mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative.
We’re not into nation-building. We’re into justice.
I’m absolutely confident that everybody that’s been put to death is two things: One, they’re guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly, they had full access to our courts, both state and federal.
War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, ‘I was just following orders.’
Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty ever written are lies to be burned and destroyed and forgotten.
I said you were a man of peace. I want you to know I took immense crap for that.