We reaffirm our long-term strategic partnership with Afghanistan.

We're sending additional civilian experts to Afghanistan.

This is not just America's war.

Because the actions and policies of the Government of Sudan continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, the national emergency declared on November 3, 1997, as expanded on April 26, 2006, must continue in effect beyond November 3, 2008.

The United States condemns the sentencing of 12 members of the Damascus Declaration National Council to two and a half years in prison.

By helping this President and Liberia, we really help ourselves in many ways.

I hereby determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the Act, with respect to Algeria, Fiji, Kuwait, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, that provision to these countries' governments of all programs, projects, or activities of assistance would promote the purposes of the Act or is otherwise in the national interest of the United States.

I believe the best foreign policy for America is one that lets people from other countries get to know this country firsthand.

I thank the people of Slovakia for supporting the Government's decision to deploy troops into Afghanistan.

The United States will not abandon you on this issue.

The fundamental question is, how do you solve the problem of North Korea?

Our relations have been important; they are important, and they will be important.

I am instructing the Secretaries of State and Treasury to develop sanctions against this illegitimate Government of Zimbabwe and those who support it.

If North Korea continues to make the right choices, it can repair its relationship with the international community.

The United States takes the abduction issue very seriously.

The continuation of the exercise of authorities under the Trading With the Enemy Act with respect to North Korea is no longer in the national interest of the United States.

The decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the right decision at the time, and it is the right decision today.

Leaving Iraq before the job is done would endanger our citizens and embolden the enemies who have vowed to attack us again.