Life Really Is A Series Of Contrasts.

If The Iraqi Regime Is Able To Produce, Buy Or Steal An Amount Of Highly Enriched Uranium A Little Larger Than A Single Softball, [it] Could Have A Nuclear Weapon In Less Than A Year.

Too Many Of Our Children Cannot Read. Reading Is The Building Block, And It Must Be The Foundation For Education Reform.

I Understand How Democracy Works. Quite A Little Bit Of Criticism In It, Which Is Fine. That's Fine. That's Part Of The Process. But I Have Every Right, As Do My Administration, To Make It Clear What The Consequences Would Be Of Policy. And If We Think Somebody Is Strong Or Doesn't See The World The Way It Is, We'll Continue To Point That Out To People.

I Want The Iraqis To Understand That We Are With Them And That They Have To Make Tough Decisions, And We'll Help Them Make Those Tough Decisions For This Country, For This Democracy To Survive. And They've Made Some Tough Decisions.

I Was The Commander In Chief With Men And Women In Combat. And The Idea Of Trying To Agonize In Public Or Show Weakness Would Have Demoralized Them.