I feel like God wants me to run for president. I can’t explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen. I know it won’t be easy on my family, but God wants me to do it.
Renewing the promise of America begins with upholding the dignity of human life.
What’s the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that’s empty?
As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world – and I can assure you more are on the way.
It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world’s most influential nation was itself a democracy.
We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.
Our aim is a democratic peace.
Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.
And this is an administration – we’re not into nation-building, we’re focused on justice. And we’re going to get justice. It’s going to take a while, probably. But I’m a patient man. Nothing will diminish my will and my determination – nothing.
And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.
Now the Taliban will pay a price.
I just remember, all I’m doing is remembering when I was a kid I remember that they used to put out there in the old west, a wanted poster. It said: “Wanted, Dead or Alive.” All I want and America wants him brought to justice. That’s what we want.
There ought to be limits to freedom.
Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.
America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.
We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.
No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it’s all aimed at achieving peace.
If you don’t succeed, you run the risk of failure.
You know what’s interesting about Washington? It’s the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
The best diplomacy starts with getting to know each other.