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We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.

If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years ... we would not have had the kind of job growth we've had.

As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.

It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.

How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.

What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action.

Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.

I have not seen Al Gore's movie.

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see.

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators ... I think it will go relatively quickly, ... [in] weeks rather than months.

Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.

The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.

I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

[Saddam Hussein is aggressively seeking nuclear and biological weapons and ] the United States may well become the target.

The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.

It's a tougher program for tougher customers.

I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

I think Barack Obama is a one-term President.

I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.

Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve.

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys.

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.

Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.

His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.

I am a deficit hawk.

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; 'consistent' is not one of them.

I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.

You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming.

I think freedom means freedom for everybody,

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

I think President Obama is going to be a one-term president.

As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them: How do you think I got the job?

Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.

I support the President's plan to amend the Constitution, banning same-sex marriage.

I'm more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent.

We've had experiences where the president's been shot, but never had a situation where the vice president shot somebody.

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.

We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.

I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.

I want to avoid personal attacks, ... I promise not to make fun of your singing.

I think the decision that's been made with respect to allowing gays to serve openly in the military is a good one.

I don't think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

Under our plan you can build wealth, even if you don't have a dollar to spare.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

The bottom line is that we've had enormous successes (in Iraq) and we will continue to have enormous successes.

I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.

I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part.

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.

I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many,

I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.

There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government