I, I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah.

I see women of cover here, and I want to thank you for coming from the Muslim community here in America.

I'll never forget the story of people in a Midwestern city, when they heard me on TV talk about how distressed I was that women of cover would not leave their homes, for fear of some other American treating them harshly, and then Jewish citizens and Christians alike, getting on the phone, and saying, we want to help you. We want to take you to the neighborhood store. This isn't the America we know.

[The evildoers] are hearing from a tolerant nation, a nation that respects Islam and values our many Muslim citizens. They are hearing from a prayerful nation, a nation that prays to an almighty God for protection and for peace.

I was struck by this: that in many cities, when Christian and Jewish women learn that Muslim women — women of cover — were afraid of going out of their homes alone, that they went shopping with them, that they showed true friendship and support — an act that shows the world the true nature of America.

The story I talked about earlier was one that really touched my heart, about women of cover fearing to leave their homes. And there was such an outpouring of compassion for people within our own country, a recognition that the Islamic faith should stand side by side, hand to hand with the Jewish faith and the Christian faith in our great land.

I see an opportunity at home when I hear the stories of Christian and Jewish women alike, helping women of cover, Arab American women go shop because they're afraid to leave their home.

It's a sign from above.

INTERVIEWER: Well, you're a secular official...
DUBYA: I agree. I am a secular official.
INTERVIEWER: And not a missionary.
DUBYA: Sir, on the air strikes in Iraq, the Pentagon is now saying that most of the bombs used in those strikes missed their targets.

There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

I quit drinking in 1986 and haven't had a drop since then. And it wasn't because of a government program, by the way — in my particular case, because I had a higher call.

I did denounce it. I de- I denounced it. I denounced interracial dating. I denounced anti-Catholic bigacy... bigotry.

We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself.

But one way is for religion to be introduced — is for me — you know, my heart was changed — one heart at a time, my little old heart.

My faith tells me that acceptance of Jesus Christ as my savior is my salvation, and I believe I made it clear that it is not the governor's role to decide who goes to heaven. I believe God decides who goes to heaven, not George W. Bush.

I'm sure there is some kind of heavy doctrinal difference, which I'm not sophisticated enough to explain to you.