Stephen Hadley President Quotations

Next week the president and Mrs. Bush will depart for South Asia. They will travel to India and Pakistan. This is the first trip of the president and Mrs. Bush to either country. They are very much looking forward to it.

We're confident, the president is confident, when Congress really understands the transaction they will conclude as he did, it's the right thing to do.

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Palestinian President Abbas earned the trust of his people when he was elected on a platform of peace this past January. Now the Palestinian Authority must make good on that promise by fighting terrorism.

I think the point that we need to emphasize here was, allegations now that the president somehow manipulated intelligence, somehow misled the American people are flat wrong.

The president believes that we must remember the clearest lesson of Sept. 11: that the United States of America must confront threats before they fully materialize.

The president has been very clear we're doing that in a way that is consistent with our values and that is why he's been very clear that the United States will not torture.

While we have to do what is necessary to defend the country against terrorists and to win the war on terror, the president has been very clear that we're going to do that in a way that is consistent with our values and that is why he has been very clear that the United States will not torture.

What the president has said is that we do not torture. And he said that while we need to be aggressive in the war against terror, we also have to do it in a way that complies with U.S. law, with U.S. treaty obligations and with the Constitution.

The stop in the Slovak Republic is a nice opportunity for the president to remind Europe and the rest of the world of the progress we've made together in that part of the world,

The president is very anxious to come to South Asia. He would be very anxious to meet with President Musharraf here in Pakistan.

Scooter Libby is a fine person. And he served the president and the vice president well,

Argentina is the host. Argentina has taken a strong hand in forming the agenda, and we will obviously want to support that. And the president will make a contribution on those topics.

This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or initiative, ... We've got a range of issues.

That said, one of the things we've also made clear -- and the president was trying to make clear the other night -- is when President Putin says that he is committed to democracy, people will obviously watch and see how that is manifested in action.

He served the president and the vice president well. There is now an indictment. And he is entitled to the benefit of the presumption of innocence,

The reporting we have is that the demonstrations and the violence associated with the cartoons has subsided. The president has made clear in a couple statements how he sees that whole issue. And I think it's very clear that he wants to go and that his Pakistani hosts want him to come. And therefore, we're going.