I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.

There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.

He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

[Saddam] Hussein maintains an active and aggressive nuclear weapons program.

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.

NEVER be surprised by your own success!

The Mind cannot be confused, but it is confusion.

You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative.

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

Heaven help the man who fights his fear.

I love the interplay with other smart and creative people who have got better ideas than I do and that I can bring something to, as well.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.

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