I Will Always Believe Our Nation's Best

I've Got A Job To Do, And I'm Going To Be Judged Upon Whether Or Not The World Is More Peaceful And Whether Or Not America Is More Prosperous And More Compassionate.

If You Take All The Food Aid, America Is By Far The Most Generous Country. If You Take The Direct Aid, We're Very Generous. But When You Add On Our Private Contributions - See, Our Tax System Encourages Private Citizens To Donate To Organisations That, For Example, Help The Folks In Africa. And When You Take The Combined Effort Of Us Taxpayers' Money Plus Us Citizens' Donations, We're Very Generous. And We'll Do More.

We Spend Less Time With Each Other Now Than We Did During The Presidency. When You're President, You're Usually Out And Back In The Same Day - At Least I Was. I Just Came From A Trip To The Middle East Last Week, Where I Was Gone For Five Nights, And When I Left, Laura [bush] Was Out Of Town.

One Of The Very Difficult Parts Of The Decision I Made On The Financial Crisis Was To Use Hardworking People's Money To Help Prevent There To Be A Crisis.

"reinvention" Is A Word That Doesn't Fit Into My Vocabulary.