Quotes from George W. Bush

Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let us never forget ... beyond Europe's borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders.

See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.

I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be -- hold hands.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

I've got an 'eckilectic' reading list.

You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

Pray as if it all depends upon God, for it does. But work as if it all depends upon us, for it does.

Our nation must come together to unite.

Heckuva job, Brownie!

In my first meeting with Vladimir Putin in the spring of 2001, he complained that Russia was burdened by Soviet-era debt. At that point, oil ws selling for $26 per barrel. By the time I saw Putin at the APEC summit in Sydney in September 2007 oil had reached $71--on its way to $137 in the summer of 2008. He leaned back in his chair and asked how were Russia's mortgage-backed securities doing.