- "Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure."
- "I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way."
- "I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch."
- "I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."
- "I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."