Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
We spend less time with each other now than we did during the presidency. When you're president, you're usually out and back in the same day - at least I was. I just came from a trip to the Middle East last week, where I was gone for five nights, and when I left, Laura [Bush] was out of town.
To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?