“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.”

“Today our nation saw evil...and we responded with the best of America.”

“Every American who served in Iraq helped to make our nation safer, gave twenty-five million people the chance to live in freedom, and changed the direction of the Middle East for generations to come. There are things we got wrong in Iraq, but that cause is eternally right.”

“No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.”

“Our nation must come together to unite.”

“See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." —George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003”

“We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.”