“One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. ”

“You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --George W. Bush, interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006”

“The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror...so today I vetoed it”

“My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.”

“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.”

“The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.”

“I am a war president.”