Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

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.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

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.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.