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

“I talked to my little brother, Jeb -- I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of -- I shouldn't call him my little brother -- my brother, Jeb, the great Governor of Texas.”

“The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.”

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

“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”

“At that point in my life, I was not looking for a career. I viewed my first decade after college as a time to explore. I didn't want anchors to hold me down. If something caught my attention, I would try it. If not, I would move on.”