Mercury Handi-Chart

The most memorable lines from President Bush's second inaugural address

"Today, freedom's on the march in Iraq. It's a forced march--at gunpoint--but it's marching nonetheless."

"We will still face hardships, harder ships than we've ever faced before, but we will persevere."

"My critics have accused me of lying. Well, I'm sorry, but in Texas we call that talking."

"I see a great nation, a proud people unified by a common purpose and a shared vision and I think...man, that Norway's a cool place."

"We are a nation slow to anger, slow to read and slower still to diet."

"Three years ago, we were at war with a fundamentalist theocracy. Today, we are one."

"Wherever oppressed people live in chains above vast reservoirs of unclaimed oil, America will respond with a righteous ferocity to liberate it...them."

"Of course honorable people can disagree, but that's all they can do because honorable people aren't in power right now."

"Our hearts go out to those National Guardsmen who, through the cruel lottery of low birth, must actually honor their military commitments."