"This young century will be liberty's century."

"I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)"

"And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes."

"We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons."

"I think we agree, the past is over."

"Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that."

"Reading is the basics for all learning."

"For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America."

"Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech."

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." (Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)"

"The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true."

"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."

"There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb."

"The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?"

"Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes."

"The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing."

"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."

"Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere"

"It will take time to restore chaos"

"The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom."

"After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers."

"It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue."

"I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger."

"America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children."

"Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver."

"The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it."

"We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile."

"No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do."

"People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me."

"Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage."

"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."

"Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us."

"The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell."

"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."

"The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free."

"I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one."