My major focus is national security because that's really what the president runs.

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.

My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

We had no domestic attacks under Bush.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.

It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.

Rather than saying 'I hate mess', it might draw more compassion to say, 'mess terrifies me as a harbinger of catastrophe'.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex.

But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.