"Joining will serve the national security interests of the United States and secure U.S. sovereign rights over extensive marine areas including the valuable natural resources they contain."
"our war is not against this Islamic religion but against those who would corrupt it, distort it, and misuse it in the name of terrorism."
"I will tell you, with $55 oil, we don't need incentives for the oil and gas companies to explore. There are plenty of incentives."
"if we increase our support at this critical moment and hope the Iraqis break the current cycle of violence, we can hasten the day our troops begin coming home."
"Our failure to properly manage the human activities that affect the nation's oceans, coasts, and Great Lakes is compromising their ecological integrity."
"I take great pleasure in signing the legislation as demonstration to the American people of my determination that each and every American shall breathe clean air."
"He's celebrating with all Americans right now in what he called -- quote -- 'an important victory on the war of terror,' a phrase this White House, as you know, does not use."
"[t]hose who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger . . . should be ashamed of that kind of behavior."
"Our war was with the terrorists who perverted the teachings of Islam, not with Muslims who were faithful to what he called 'a faith based upon love, not hate.'"
"I am firmly committed to the principle that the question of political status is a matter of self-determination the people of Puerto Rico."
"We are witnessing history."