President Calderon has been very courageous in taking on these drug cartels.

I'm told that you're cruising at about 17,000 miles per hour. So we're glad that you are using the hands-free phone.

We need to do more to make sure that illegal guns and cash aren't flowing back to these cartels.

You guys still drink Tang up there? That's, by the way, before the time of you young people.

When it comes to Iran, we did a video sending a message to the Iranian people and the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran. And some people said, 'Well, they did not immediately say that 'We're eliminating nuclear weapons and stop…

We never expected, when we printed out our budget, that they would simply Xerox it and vote on it.

Each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries, and threaten our planet.

This is a little bit too much to swallow, at least for now.

The budget I submitted to Congress will build our economic recovery on a stronger foundation so that we don't face another crisis like this 10 or 20 years from now.

That whole philosophy of persistence, by the way, is one that I'm going to be emphasizing again and again in the months and years to come as long as I'm in this office. I'm a big believer in persistence.

I think, when it comes to the banking system, you know, it was just a few days ago or weeks ago where people were certain that Secretary Geithner couldn't deliver a plan. Today, the headlines all look like, 'Well, all right, there's a…

At the end of the day, the best way to bring our deficit down in the long run is not with a budget that continues the very same policies that have led us to a narrow prosperity and massive debt. It's with a budget that leads to broad…

I'm as angry as anybody about those bonuses that went to some of the very same individuals who brought our financial system to its knees.

It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak.

Flood waters crested at 34 feet in Fargo and exceeded record levels in some areas.

We need to come together and let's stop -- you know, the bankers have to understand things, but let's not demonize every investor and entrepreneur.

I wanted to ask you about the decision that came out last week in Federal district court here regarding the guns in parks.

Do you believe that the energy development and the environmental protection can be balanced, or are we going to be in a situation where we're having to place additional lands off limits for development?