What People Can Dream, People

I Faced A Lot Of Criticism As President. I Didn't Like Hearing People Claim That I Lied About Iraq's Weapons Of Mass Destruction Or Cut Taxes To Benefit The Rich. But The Suggestion That I Was Racist Because Of The Response To Katrina Represented An All-time Low.

This Is A World That Is Much More Uncertain Than The Past. In The Past We Were Certain, We Were Certain It Was Us Versus The Russians In The Past. We Were Certain, And Therefore We Had Huge Nuclear Arsenals Aimed At Each Other To Keep The Peace. That's What We Were Certain Of... You See, Even Though It's An Uncertain World, We're Certain Of Some Things. We're Certain That Even Though The "evil Empire" May Have Passed, Evil Still Remains.

In Some Cases, The Measured Use Of Force Is All That Protects Us From A Chaotic World Ruled By Force.

For Too Long, Many Nations, Including My Own, Tolerated, Even Excused, Oppression In The Middle East In The Name Of Stability. Oppression Became Common, But Stability Never Arrived. We Must Take A Different Approach. We Must Help The Reformers Of The Middle East As They Work For Freedom, And Strive To Build A Community Of Peaceful, Democratic Nations.

I Understand How Democracy Works. Quite A Little Bit Of Criticism In It, Which Is Fine. That's Fine. That's Part Of The Process. But I Have Every Right, As Do My Administration, To Make It Clear What The Consequences Would Be Of Policy. And If We Think Somebody Is Strong Or Doesn't See The World The Way It Is, We'll Continue To Point That Out To People.