America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.
On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
