“If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!”

“The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.”

“I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong.”

“There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000”

“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”

“I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.”

“You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”