As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life.

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.

No tears come, only memories. Memories and regrets.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Cam's wings were so bright they were almost blinding as they pulsed. "Holy Hell," Callie whispered, blinking."More or less," Arriane said

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

It's not about how to get started; it's about how to get noticed.