“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”

“You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005”

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

“Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.”

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

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

“This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.”