It's hard work serving here at the White House.

I'm afraid that, as we get farther away from September 11th, 2001, some in the Nation's Capital are starting to downplay the threat, and to back away from the hard work at hand.

In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard work. It's incredibly hard.

There's a lot of really good people working hard to do so. It's hard work.

And now we're fighting them now. And it's hard work. I understand how hard it is. I get the casualty reports every day. I see on the TV screens how hard it is. But it's necessary work.

The plan says we'll train Iraqi soldiers so they can do the hard work, and we are.

It is hard work. It is hard work to go from a tyranny to a democracy. It's hard work to go from a place where people get their hands cut off, or executed, to a place where people are free.

You know, it's hard work to try to love her as best as I can, knowing full well that the decision I made caused her loved one to be in harm's way.

Yes, we're getting the job done. It's hard work. Everybody knows it's hard work, because there's a determined enemy that's trying to defeat us.

We've done a lot of hard work together over the last three and a half years.

The best way to take the pressure off our troops is to succeed in Iraq, is to train Iraqis so they can do the hard work of democracy, is to give them a chance to defend their country, which is precisely what we're doing.

And yet, because of the hard work of the American people and good policies, this economy is growing.

Look, this is hard work. It's hard to advance freedom in a country that has been strangled by tyranny.

The A.Q. Khan bust, the network that we uncovered, thanks to the hard work of our intelligence-gathering agencies and the cooperation of the British, was another victory in the war against terror.

We haven't had an energy strategy in our country for decades. And so I'm not surprised that some are balking at doing hard work. But I have a duty as the President to define problems facing our nation and to call upon people to act.

The more secure Iraq becomes, as a result of the hard work of Iraqi security forces, the more confident the people will have in the process, and the more isolated the terrorists will become.

John Bolton's an impressive fellow. I applaud him for his hard work.