Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
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.
I appreciate people’s opinions, but I’m more interested in news. And the best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what’s happening in the world.
One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.
I’ve got a job to do, and I’m going to be judged upon whether or not the world is more peaceful and whether or not America is more prosperous and more compassionate.
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
One of the things that I will have ended my public service time with is a group of friends, a lot of friends. And I want to stay in touch with them and there’s no better way to communicate with them than through email.
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 would never use God to promote foreign policy decisions. I recognize that in the eyes of an almighty, I am a lowly sinner, and I ask for strength and wisdom and I pray for calmness when the seas are storming, and I pray for others.
When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they’re there.
I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.
Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God’s gift to humanity.
Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech.
Reading is the basics for all learning.
Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.