I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.

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 have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

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 believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

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.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.