"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." - LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Oct. 18, 2000 "Our priorities is our faith." - Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000 "If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it." - St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000 "Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about." "Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is - I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president." "I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun." "It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term." "Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it." "If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders." "The very act of spending money can be expensive." "I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe is right." "Actually, I--this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about--when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me." "More and more of our imports come from overseas." "The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants." "This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end." "It's your money. You paid for it." "I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions; I can't answer your question." "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected." "I can hear you! I hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked down these buildings will hear all of us soon!" - To rescue workers at the World Trade Center, New York, September 14, 2001 "The United States has no truer friend than Great Britain." "America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world." "We will prevail." - to the American people during a televised address on the night of September 11, 2001. "I hope I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, anti-racism. This is what drives me." "It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." (June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live TV camera was running) "Is our children learning?" "The presidency is more than an honor, it is more than an office, it is a charge to keep and I will give it my all." "I was not elected to serve one party, but to serve one nation." "I will not yield, I will not rest, I will not relent in waging the struggle for freedom and security for the American people." "Our priorities are our faith. Our priorities are our family. Our priority is a country we love dearly called America." On his hopes for Saddam Hussein's interogation: "He's a deceiver, he's a liar, he's a torturer, he's a murderer. I can't imagine why he would change his attitude, since he'll be treated humanely by US troops. And, you know, I would be very skeptical of anything he said one way or the other." On the fate of Saddam Hussein after trial: "I've got my own personal views. This is a brutal dictator. He's a person who killed a lot of people. But my personal views are not important in this matter. It's going to be up to the Iraqis to make those decisions." On his hopes for Saddam Hussein's interrogation: "I don't believe he'll tell the truth. He didn't tell the truth for over a decade. I just can't believe he's going to change his ways now just because he happens to be captured." "I have come to realise this job is a magnificent job" - announcing his run for re- election On Saddam Hussein's fate: "This is a disgusting tyrant who deserves justice, the ultimate justice." "Freedom is not America's gift to the world. It is God's gift to humanity." - State of the Union address January 28, 2003 "If we know Saddam has WMDs - and we do - does it make sense for the world to wait to confront him?" - October 2002. "We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease, and it suffers from poverty as well." "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." "There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of this site, and this guy is just a garbage man, that's all he is." -- discussing the web site GWbush.com that parodies him. "In grief, we found the grace to go on." - about 9/11, from 2004 State of the Union address. "..of course I think he was underestimated. People, mostly people on the East coast, were saying that an actor couldn't be President. But what they were forgetting was that he was the governor of the largest state in the Union." - During an interview about the recent death of Ronald Reagan, former President and former Governor of California. I think we ought to raise the age at which a juvenile can carry a handgun from 18 to 21. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." "If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long." "I don't think I was clinically an alcoholic; I didn't have the genuine addiction. I don't know why I drank. I liked to drink, I guess." "In the corporate world, sometimes things aren't exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures." "My job is to lead." "My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate." "My views are one that speaks to freedom." "The signal we ought to send to our children is that in spite of what happened in the '60s and '70s, we have learned some lessons. And the lessons ought to be: don't be using drugs and alcohol." "Tribal sovereignty means that, it's sovereign. You're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And, therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." "Uh, I never ran for governor of Texas to be president. It didn't enter my mind when I was 21. It didn't enter my mind when I was 31 or 41. Truthfully. I mean, I didn't conduct my life to try to figure out how to be president. And so when all this speculation started, it caught me, and my mother, totally by surprise. But I am interested. I'm interested because, um, I'm concerned about the future of our country. That's why I'm interested." "We've been attacked for where I was born, for who my family is, and where my money has come from. I don't think that's fair." "You can disagree with me on issues, John (McCain), but do not question - do not question my trustworthiness. And do not compare me to 'Bill Clinton' ." "Human life is a creation of God, not a commodity to be exploited by man." March 11, 2004 "I will not forget the wound to our country and those who inflicted it. I will not yield, I will not rest, I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people." (September 20th 2001) "We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. And the job is this: We'll help the Iraqis develop a democracy."